I totally believe we should be living in a time of abundance, like a Peter Diamandis book. If you really think about the things that you need to make yourself happy. housing, security, opportunity for your kids- anthropologists have identified these things it's not that hard for us to provide those things. I mean, the amount of resources we need to do that, the amount of work that actually needs to go into that is pretty small, I'm guessing less than 1 percent at the moment.

So the idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet people's needs is just not true. I do think there's a problem that we don't recognize that. And I think there's also, like, kind of a social problem that a lot of people aren't happy if they don't have anything to do. So we need to give people things to do. We need to feel like you're needed and wanted and- and have something productive to do.

But I think the mix with that and the industries we actually need and so on are pretty- there's not a good correspondence. That's why we're busy destroying the environment and doing other things maybe we don't need to be doing.

Larry Page:

I totally believe we should be living in a time of abundance, like a Peter Diamandis book. If you really think about the things that you need to make yourself happy. housing, security, opportunity for your kids- anthropologists have identified these things it's not that hard for us to provide those things. I mean, the amount of resources we need to do that, the amount of work that actually needs to go into that is pretty small, I'm guessing less than 1 percent at the moment.

So the idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet people's needs is just not true. I do think there's a problem that we don't recognize that. And I think there's also, like, kind of a social problem that a lot of people aren't happy if they don't have anything to do. So we need to give people things to do. We need to feel like you're needed and wanted and- and have something productive to do.

But I think the mix with that and the industries we actually need and so on are pretty- there's not a good correspondence. That's why we're busy destroying the environment and doing other things maybe we don't need to be doing.