alt Hacker News> we haven't gotten more share of the money.
But your money buys stuff that 50 years ago would have been too expensive for the richest men in the world. A pocket supercomputer, advanced diagnostics and medicine, instant access to information anywhere in the world.
Material gains (produced by more productive workers) don't offset the increases in
Nor does it offset the accelerating increases in complexity for basic living factors - complexity that consumes internal resources and time.More to the point, a pocket supercomputer is an irrelevancy for a typical wage worker, who's earnings are far insufficient for even the barest self-sufficiency.