One thing to remember is that a country where one person makes $120,000 and nine others make $20,000 has the same per-capita GDP as a country where ten people make $30,000 each. Also, as m_eiman points out, PPP does not account for social costs such as increased greenhouse emissions or declining infrastructure.
My father-in-law loves to work on cars, but he can only fix simple things on a newer model car because of all the complexity. That's why he still drives his old 1960's pickup truck.
This article isn't talking about efficiency, it's talking about joy -- the basis of all hobbies.
So how long until Disney decides that Hulu should use the Move Media Player and not support any browser other than IE just like abc.com. I like Hulu because it's simple and works well, something that Disney seems to not understand.
Because it's really that hard to Ctrl+click a link in an email, archive it, and move on to the next email?