When one thing becomes abundant and cheap, another thing becomes scarce and valuable. - Marc Andreessen

Technology increases productivity → cost of output falls → demand for output rises → more total output gets built → more jobs (and at higher wages).

The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless

Cognition, executive function, indeed existence itself, are whole-mind/body experiences. The answer is not inward, it is outward, and in the world.