> Technology, instead of giving us more free time, caused us just to fill that free time with different work
Technology gave us more free time. It also gave us more things to do with that time. You don't need more than a few tens of thousands of dollars of savings to basically retire somewhere remote-ish and live a 19th-century lifestyle. Most of us don't do it because want air travel and internet and modern medicines.
And the free work we do is exactly for the platforms dominating us, we do all the curation of data for their machine learning to train on, getting paid in scraps of dopamine to get addicted and perpetually perform work on data.
Data is the new oil, just better since there's a never-ending cycle of creating more of it.
I do not like having to sleep so much. I understand the argument that it could become normalized like e.g. caffeine, but I personally would like to spend closer to the third of my life that is considered "normal" than to the half or over-half of my life that sleep currently seems to be.
