More to the point, and taking out my axe to grind, all of this focus on productivity and being a “success!” is helpful, but also amusing and adisheartening. Please stick with me here, but if you look into sociology written over the last 20 years, it’s tragic (but also inspiring) how Americans tried and tried to work harder, even though the cost of everything went up 3x and the amount of work needed to attain that same stuff also went up 3x, thus meaning everything required 9x more effort.
I love people working hard, but it’s shocking when you learn that adjusted to BOTH population growth and inflation, an apartment in New York City should rent for about $900 today.
If linear trends continue (they won’t fortunately, some kind of large crisis will reset them) we’ll be talking about preparing kids to be a “CEO!” at 14 or earlier, maybe even there will be “CEO Camps”. What a delight...