I'm not saying we should stop trying to advance technology, but how much have we really progressed if we end up with space colonization and cold fusion, but the

I'm not saying we should stop trying to advance technology, but how much have we really progressed if we end up with space colonization and cold fusion, but the average first world worker is still a creatively suppressed wage slave struggling to stay out of debt and the average third world worker is still a borderline real slave struggling to fulfill basic necessities? A set of priorities that is humanist in nature and puts quality of life before advancement would lead to greater output on both sides of the coin. We know in the case of open source and experimental hacking, for example, that a driven and intelligent person's productive capacity is enhanced by additional free time, not decreased. Put humans first. The technology will follow, and it will be better and more sustainable technology.