[civilian]

For wages, it's a supply and demand thing. It's not just that a few people are 300x more productive, it's that most people are now 300x productive. I don't hold anything special by being able to login, type, email, and use Word and Excel.

I share your outrage at people's willingness to follow rules, but I've always thought it was because of our autocratic education system and the fearmongering media. People are discouraged from taking risks (even risks with probably beneficial outcomes) everyday, and sometime they let it get beat out of them. I don't think that computers are responsible for that, it's a just generic psychological conditioning. And in my more pessimistic moments, I think that some people just don't care.

[omalleyt]

I completely agree with you. Our primary education system is in no small part based on the Prussian system, which was developed after losing a battle to French, with the purpose of raising children into troops that would hold the line even in the face of certain death. This autocratic system of education is sometimes cited as enabling the rise to power of the Nazi party.