The internet did change things pretty dramatically.
Productivity at information communication tasks just isn’t the entire economy.
I think we are massively more productive. Some of the biggest new companies are ad companies (Google, Facebook), or spend a ton of their time designing devices that can’t be modified by their users (Apple, Microsoft). Even old fashioned companies like tractor and train companies have time to waste on preventing users from performing maintenance. And then the economy has leftover effort to jailbreak all this stuff.
We’re very productive, we’ve just found room for unlimited zero or negative sum behavior.
Productivity at information communication tasks just isn’t the entire economy.
I think we are massively more productive. Some of the biggest new companies are ad companies (Google, Facebook), or spend a ton of their time designing devices that can’t be modified by their users (Apple, Microsoft). Even old fashioned companies like tractor and train companies have time to waste on preventing users from performing maintenance. And then the economy has leftover effort to jailbreak all this stuff.
We’re very productive, we’ve just found room for unlimited zero or negative sum behavior.