Disconnect.

Because when it comes to technology, to labor-saving devices; never was one invented that saved anyone a minute's work.

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” 
― Karl Marx

"As increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor, the energies of the industrious members of the community are bent to the compassing of a higher result in conspicuous expenditure, rather than slackened to a more comfortable pace. 

...this want ...

is indefinitely expansible, after the manner commonly imputed in economic theory to higher or spiritual wants.

 It is owing chiefly to the presence of this element in the standard of living that J. S. Mill was able to say that "hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899).