That's exactly right and what the article's author misses. "[M]aking statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another" is pretty much how humans write. Our guesses are informed since birth by a huge variety of data inputs. We have different wiring to account for a different power source and benefit from some of the data being baked into our DNA such as pain receptors giving us an aversion to extreme heat.

More output per hour per worker is how living standards improve. More hours per worker LOWERS living standards. Free time is by common definition a part of living standards. Redefining basic terms to suit a backwards narrative is disgusting.

If GDP is up and number of hours worked is down, we're more productive. BLS data has now shown that remote work makes us several percentage points more productive. Pretending the numbers say otherwise takes some serious mental gymnastics.