That's one of my gripes too. There's a profession-wide assumption that productivity is the end-all-be-all. Everyone forgets that the starting assumption is that individuals have infinite demand, which means the demand for leisure is the purpose of the whole mousetrap.

Like, I remember having this naive thought early on - that if we're more productive, we'll all get to work less, and before ya know it, we're the Jetsons and one guy can "work" by pressing one button and going home. But actually what happens is you work more and more people just don't get jobs at all.

Well anyways, that's it for tonight. Unfinished thoughts on an aborted career.