[moffkalast]

Oh I disagree completely, births are a very life and death situation for both involved if any compilations happen to set in. It's extremely worth the benefit to have some doctors around.

> people saving their time, and thus freeing it for more worthwhile endeavors

Do we? Use it for more worthwhile endeavours? I doubt scrolling an online feed of endless bullshit would qualify as that, and most people seem to spend their left over time doing that instead. We're dopamine rush optimizers, not some kind of paragon who spends their time working for the good of society.

Now I'm not saying it makes any sense for us to go back to washing things by hand, but I am saying that automating chores and saving time is like heroin to us and that we'll pay every cent we have for it, as OP's original point was.

> People own cars to drive more than two blocks

Yeah but once we have the ability to drive anywhere it's easy to use it for all kinds of things that we really don't need it for, cause it's just so convenient, fuel prices be damned :)