I totally agree with you that many of us could be more productive at their workplace, but they still could be less productive. In fact, let's say that someone p

I totally agree with you that many of us could be more productive at their workplace, but they still could be less productive. In fact, let's say that someone productivity goes between 0 and 1, productivity 0 means that you don't do anything at all and just waste your time. Productivity 1 means being as efficient Carmack. I would say that the current productivity is quite low for the employed people, maybe 0.1 in average, and follows some kind of log-normal distribution (all of this are super rough approximation). If we adopt BIG, we would have lots of people who will have 0 productivity (maybe 95% of the population, much more IMHO), and the rest will have a higher productivity. Would we be better off? It's not clear to me, especially at the beginning - maybe after one generation people will get used to work on what they really like - but I would really like to see some experimentation in that direction.