The Proliferation of Difficulty

[Systematic]

Presently, most people are paid more for dealing with difficulties than with eliminating them. The doctor gets paid more money for seeing patients than for making a computer program that could see patients. Their job security requires that their job be difficult, since ease in their own job would allow just about anyone to do it.
That creates unnecessary difficulty in doing medicine—even routine medicine. And it isn’t just medicine that is affected. The machines that do most labor are prohibitively expensive and hard to repair. Difficulties are everywhere due to people wanting to protect their own income.
However, we need difficulties to be made easy in order to progress. For example, if we visited the planet Mars, we would not just need ease of transportation, but we would also need ease of medicine, manufacture, mining, etc. once we reached Mars. We would not be able to live comfortably on Mars or on a spacecraft for years on end without easier ways of doing.
Also, ease allows for increased power of the individual. Perhaps that is another reason for the proliferation of difficulty. When the individual is allowed more options, that is a type of power. Ease allows the average person to perform, and that gives many more options to buyers as well. Perhaps that is also a reason for difficulty. And more options usually drives down the price of a given good or service. That also creates further ease for the buyer.
We need at least a few things in order for ease to take hold. Firstly, we need a commitment to doing everything the easy way even if that be temporarily more difficult. Sometimes we can find new and ingenious ways to make life easier for ourselves and other if we try hard in the first place.
Secondly, we need everyone to work harder and smarter with what they have. Some of this work can be pawned off to machinery which might probably be manufactured much less expensively if we insist upon it. But we humans, in addition to insisting upon ease, need to do more work more consistently in order to maintain ease. Because certain types of work eliminate the need for more work.
Thirdly, we need higher wages for the work that we do. More money makes affording the goods and services easier. I am not specifying a rich-only lack of difficulty. Everyone should have ease, and hopefully then they will be able to live however they choose.

[Impenitent]

sloth for everyone?

-Imp

[FlashDangerpants]

If you want to make medicine easy, cut off your own head. Years of expensive and difficult medical training will no longer be required in order to confidently diagnose your condition.

[TSBU]

People are humans.

Robots will replace most of humans in nearly every function.

[Systematic]

sloth for everyone?

-Imp

The point is not sloth for everyone. The point is ability for everyone. If a little work gets you further, imagine how much a lot of work can bring in.