"Generally any task that can be measured by the metrics of productivity — output per hour — is a task we want automation to do. In short, productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring. None of these fare well under the scrutiny of productivity. That is why science and art are so hard to fund. But they are also the foundation of long-term growth. Yet our notions of jobs, of work, of the economy don’t include a lot of space for wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring."
The rest of his point in the essay is a good one, so far as I can tell. But I love this as an abbreviated extract:
"Productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time."
Hell, I know I'm pretty good at wasting time. I'll take it.
See also "farting around" by way of comparison.
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