As a millennial my whole life has felt pretty Malthisuan. I haven’t personally really benefitted from productivity increase, I have seen any competitive edge I had by being smarter or early to things erode away rapidly again and again. The only real defense is accumulated wealth or connections possibly.

Many parallels between this article and another posted today ("Unsubscribe from the Church of Graphs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604253). Both are responses to astralcodexten posts, and the vibes felt around anecdata vs statistics.