alt Hacker News>I'm skeptical of the idea that the financial wellbeing of the average American has been improved by computers.
Really? Even with all the new avenues of education and communication that they opened up? You think the positives and negatives balance out to close to zero?
The stats I linked above show that those “new avenues of education and communication” didn’t actually benefit the average American financially in at least the relative sense. Do you have something to counter that evidence?