That’s the thing of industrial revolutions. People believed it would kick humans out of the loop, when in fact it allows single persons to become entrepreneurs.
The other side effect is, we don’t use these performance gains to work less, but to produce more. Only, this time, ecologists are triggering the alarm because producing more means pulling resources from the Earth, so for the first time ever, we might see people working actually less.
That’s the thing of industrial revolutions. People believed it would kick humans out of the loop, when in fact it allows single persons to become entrepreneurs.
The other side effect is, we don’t use these performance gains to work less, but to produce more. Only, this time, ecologists are triggering the alarm because producing more means pulling resources from the Earth, so for the first time ever, we might see people working actually less.