Do you agree with this? (updated)

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8. excellent point. technology made for growth, but didn't demand how the profit was distributed.

a (very) different government might have decided that a technical advance that displaces an entire profession might belong to that profession, or at least, that the owners of the technology, or society at large, have to compensate the displaced workers who certainly should not be punished for the discovery of something that makes their job easier.

or our government could have decided that intellectual property isn't property at all and bill gates would be a nobody and we'd all be using open source unix machines that actually made sense.

or we could have had a ceo-to-worker band and we'd have quite a lot more comfortable people and quite a lot fewer people with more loot than they could spend in several generations.

or we could have a government that didn't subsidize keeping cash offshore or firing workers here to open a plant in india.

or....