Sometimes I think about all the things I do for work and how not very long ago, it would have taken months instead of days.
Imagine taking an average worker of today and their output back to 1998. They would definitely be under suspicion of cocaine use.
Its not efficiency that got people 250k a year 25-30 years ago, it was ingenuity. Being able to improvise and adapt was much better then being efficient. But even then, you had to be a little cut throat to get into the 250K+ area