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> I would have shared that guess, but clearly that's not how we humans operate.

What are you basing that on? I mean, the article is about as far as you can possibly get from "all else equal".



I just base it on living in the 21th century.

Humanity is stupendously rich, by the standards of all previous generations, and yet most of us work like crazy, certainly including many of the richest ones.

Or maybe we're talking about slightly different things?




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