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Nice read. I'm reminded of an article from over a decade ago by an Israeli academic who was inquiring about the future of the "useless class," or people who had no role in productive labor. He argued that the average person in the future must be handled by offering simple sustenance and creating satisfaction through drugs and video games (https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/opinion/opinion-tomorrow-transformed-harari/index.html). I think that gets to the core of your argument here: the managerial class looks at human satisfaction as an obstacle to be solved (through technical means specifically) instead of the actual goal of working to improve the world. Which does leave a question: what *is* the goal of making industry more productive and efficient, if not human happiness?

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