Tech Didn’t Free Us || Acharya Prashant

Full video : (Gita-28) The most misunderstood verse of the Bhagavad Gita ||Acharya Prashant, Bhagavad Gita (2024)

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00:00The British economist Keynes, he said in 1930 that with all the technological progress that we have in the next hundred years

00:06We'll have 15 hour work weeks because we'll have so much that we won't need to work at all

00:13Probably and then somebody said that electricity will become too cheap to be metered. That's the game of technology

00:18Why will human beings then need to slog so much? None of that has happened

00:22In fact human labor has become more of a plague today than it ever was

00:28Work weeks haven't shortened. Keynes has been proven wrong

00:30We work so hard because we are not working for any purpose that is achievable in any way

00:36We are trying to reach the horizon and build a grand house there or find the lady of her fairy tales there

00:42You keep running. The horizon by definition is a place you can never reach

00:46It is not without reason that we have to work so much. Given the current state of affairs

00:50Let technological efficiency increase further by a factor of 10

00:55We'll find ourselves still working as much as we do today or even more because our work is not for the purpose of

01:02Physical sustenance or material improvement through our work. We are trying to achieve the impossible