/biz/ - Business & Finance

Of my own insight, a small theory, if you oblige me:

I will use a metric of "ease of life", which some may refer to a general development index and whatnot, plenty of those around. But let me propose some of this

>before the industrial revolution, in the middle ages, we already automated a great deal, some techniques were made to create easier clothing, misc items like pins
>basic law like the magna carta was put into place
>subtle and yet slow advances into agriculture were done
>we reached 40% of ease of life, compared to previous tribalistic and nomadic lifestyles

within the industrial revolution
>a large swath of people further managed to get into factories to create all sorts of useful trinkets
>electricity was invented and used for gadgets
>rule of law became even more dominant so that less bully could occur
>we reached 60% of ease of life

past the industrial revolution
>transportation became even easier with proper cars
>first computing systems devices
>the whole equality thing took off, to modern expressiveness
>we reached 80% of ease of life

and in modernity

>smartphones created and it basically nearly made communication perfect
>everything hyper digitized

and we reached a 90% ease of life, where most of the desires are met with business and service industry. Where food is mostly easy to attain, where communication with other humans is easy, where basic sexual needs for most are easily met. Where entertainment is plentiful. If you arent a handicapped person, everything is within your grasp as a basic human being.

And I think that because of the ease of life being of such high degree, we collided with another aspect of ourselves. The aspect that wishes to procreate. Not only that but to be useful, as this concept has not died down yet. And thus we created make belief jobs as many know it well. Not only make belief jobs, also make belief industries. To cater to the ever decreasing, diminishing demands.