Would you rather live as a king in 1200 AD or a low income worker in the US in 2023?
Automation (computers, cell phones …) efficiency and lower cost goods and services. More for less…. This suggests to me a shift needed in society. 2 years in college for free to shrink the labor pool, higher pay for day care, elder care… shifting labor from production of goods, retire at 60, medical early detection of disease at home tests for 10% of 1950 price …