Scott Adams

We just had life.

The Industrial Revolution bifurcated our life, quote unquote, from our work.

And we had to be almost like a machine to fit into the cog of the production line of the Industrial Revolution.

When we are no longer part of that production line, we are rapidly being taken out of that, and the machine is going into that production line, our lives change.

And we're left with, where's the floor?

What happened?

What do I do now?

And that's what the series is about, is to try to understand it.

And, Ellen, to your question, when do we get to the point

of the ultimate, well, we never do.

So it's always going to be a phase of arriving, right?

Even when we get to that phase of nanofabrication is always gonna be something bigger and better.

So there is never any endpoint and it's never a utopia.

And that's the point I'm gonna make is that we are not going to have a utopia.

We're always going to have hopefully different frictions in human life that make us have to try to thrive.

Humans thrive by the unbalanced land that we're on because we have to struggle and that struggle is always going to be there.

These are really good points.

And if you study history, not just the Roman and Greek cultures, but a lot of the microcultures,

There's an arc of their existence.

And when they get to the existence point of so much abundance and so much wealth, there is an ultimate decline.