text: Our long time focus on efficiency, which has brought us to globalized trade and 'competitive' national economies, used to deliver better living standards for the vast majority of people in Canada and other advanced countries.  This is no longer true, and has gone into reverse,  as you can observe by looking at median wages and the problems people face moving upward with their working lives. The answer is to embrace inefficiency as a social value, but it will be a cold day in *ell before economists and leaders even consider it.  However, if you think about it, that is what wealth redistribution, protectionism or perhaps a guaranteed income along with continued or expanded global trade amount to. Even Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has proposed a tax on robots and other artificial intelligence machines as a way of slowing the process.  Millenials, are you listening?