[bradleyjg]

In 600 BCE some population had the highest living standards in the world. Was that the peak of human flourishing that we ever should have aspired to?

[drevil-v2]

Still have not answered my question. Why is lower prices better? Why would vastly higher consumption coupled with vastly decreased production be beneficial?

[bradleyjg]

More things, less work sounds like utopia to me. Bring on the replicators!