I think there's a whole movement of augmenting the human experience towards increased productivity, right? Which is kind of a twist on what you're saying and gets down to like a really philosophical argument. How does being productive impact the human experience? And what are the things that someone should be optimizing their life for or how does technology enable it? I don't know. That's a pretty scary question. Yeah. Technology is very good at taking something that's repeatable and then shrinking it down.
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