Every time the technological revolution improves the working efficiency of human beings, people always say that we will be more and more relaxed, but it seems that ordinary people are more and more tired now that the technology is more and more developed. What went wrong?

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The Cantillon Effect prevents the benefits from being distributed evenly across society. You become more productive while your purchasing power goes down and you have to be ever more productive and to keep up.

https://river.com/learn/terms/c/cantillon-effect

Yes, the financial system is unfair to individuals. In the age of agriculture, land is an important means of production; in the age of industry, machinery is an important means of production; in the age of information, data is an important means of production. Among these means of production, data is the lowest cost and easiest to obtain. As technology continues to widen the gap between rich and poor, it will become more common for ordinary people to work for machines.

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Parkinson’s law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time which is available for its completion”.

I believe that technology has made humans much more efficient but instead of taking the saved time off, we simply occupied it with other activities. The more efficiency introduced, the more crap we end up doing. This makes people mentally fatigued and perhaps physically too.

Combined with constant loss in purchasing power and having to work more for less, you get to a state of total exhaustion.

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Great answer, machines are squeezing people's living space. Machines can work day and night, but people can't. Man is supposed to use tools, but now it is man who is controlled by tools. This is why many people choose to leave modern cities and return to the countryside to live a pastoral life. Less needed, less enslaved, more free.

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The lessons of history tell us that the essence of life is "life is competition". The speed of modern information dissemination determines that technological innovation will not be owned by a few people or countries. It will not be possible to reproduce the situation in which a few countries mastered advanced productive forces and dominated the world during the Industrial Revolution. Technology changes productivity, productivity changes the way wealth is distributed, and the way wealth is distributed changes the political system.

Inflation removes all that efficiency from the market

we (or just speaking for me) have more crap to think about & deal with. here is one tiny recent example. joined Nostr ~last week. & got on lightning network. interesting, enjoyed learn. however, now more stuff I'm doing and tracking. go back a few years of phone apps, streaming services, go back pre streaming pre VCR, movie in theatres only, go pre smartphone, …

watch Larkrise to Candleford. UK small farm village, pre train travel. life is HARD, but less to learn and do and keep track of.