the society figured out how to produce more wealth with less work time, but not how to distribute it
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Produced plenty of more wealth but not much more status, which is why someone living like a medieval king is pitied.
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I don't think it's lack of status that would make him pitied. I think our standards for quality of life have risen.
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OTOH, I wonder if gaming explains how the fall in crime continued unabated through the great recession.
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we have a huge surplus of value of labor compared to cost of food/clothing/toys. Most of it goes to bidding up house prices.
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As robots and software become the new workforce, don't you think we'll move to a world of leisure/scholarship/friendly competition?
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housing excepted, I can live very comfortably on 10%-15% of my after tax salary.
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with all the free time folks can volunteer to do abandoned jobs, like science, environmental monitoring, meals on wheels, ...
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assumptions about feelings of common humanity leading to sharing instead of centralization now seen quaint, unfortunately
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