> Yeah no you don't. Your model of productivity and QoL improvement went off a cliff in the 60s. I'm not talking about the "60s". I'm talking about the entire

> Yeah no you don't. Your model of productivity and QoL improvement went off a cliff in the 60s. I'm not talking about the "60s". I'm talking about the entire history of the human race from the Paleolithic until now. It's nothing but a long, long list of technological disruptions, and somehow we're all still here and mostly still employed. > increases in required workload to maintain "middle-class" lifestyles, I'm sorry, that is simply patent nonsense. You could easily lead a '60s middle-class lifestyle (one family car, eating out just a few tiems a year, maybe one short vacation, house < 1,000 square feet...not to mention all the things we have today that weren't available at all then. For example, the Internet) for a lot less than what the typical "middle-class" lifestyle of today costs. The average house size in the United States has doubled since 1960. When I was in graduate school, I bought a small house (about 900 square feet, I think) because I was living on a TA salary (plus, I hate landlords). The thing is, when that tiny house was built in the 1940s, it housed a married couple and four children. I know because I bought it from the children (their father had passed on, and their mother moved to a nursing home). > Advances in ag tech combined with massive consolidation in the industry gutted rural ag communities with no obvious replacement. Imagine what it must've been like when all the serfs were emancipated. > I see your coy ad hominem bs trying to frame me as a neo-luddite and I'm not impressed. Oh, it was neither "coy" nor was it an ad hominem. It was explicit. I don't really care whether or not you're "impressed". Why would you imagine that I would be?