This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

addendum: if society were raised to a certain average standard of living, they might have the freshly unshackled manpower to collectively figure out how to make that standard of living higher, to a point (as we are limited by the amount of resources we have in general), if we weren't all fixated on currency

however, the desire to compete for the sake of itself may or may not make this situation possible