No, I am not talking about talent at all! I am talking about the crap that is produced for consumers, that is intentionally making them less productive.
Does my mother, for instance, deserve a text processor (MS Word) that cannot read save from one version to the next properly? Or doesn't she deserve a well researched UI (which actually was in the original MS Word!), instead of some modernist crap? Just because she is not a professional writer? These are all things that little by little improve productivity.
Or take computers, how today you cannot even install an operating system on your device. People should have right to tinker. To prevent it is making people less able to do stuff, and the whole economy suffers as a consequence. You really think that Eastern Europeans, who during communism often had to resort to "doing to yourself", are more talented than Westerners?
The point is great (or the best) technology doesn't require talent to improve productivity. Productivity improvements often stem from things that "just work".
