The average middle class house has more luxury than kings of old available.
Billions of humans died before we got where we are.
I don’t really see a reason to a) push each other as hard as we do; that hard for incremental linear economic gains inequitably distributed? To gain even more minor improvement? Haha b) see the need to do perform harder as much more than a chemical delusion
Billionaires got there by gaming biology, not building the entirety of society. I’d be a billionaire if I had a network of sycophants telling everyone I’m a billionaire too.
Our culture has jumped the shark. I look forward to the bubble bursting.
Before 1880 or so, if you wanted to listen to music, you played an instrument yourself, went to a pre-arranged concert on their schedule, or were incredibly wealthy and paid musicians to give you concerts.
In the 1920s you bought a radio or phonograph.
In the 1980s you bought tapes and then CDs and could listen on the go.
Now you can pay a subscription service and a bandwidth bill and get much of human music anytime, and nearly anywhere.
Food was stuff you or your neighbors grew; then it was stuff from your area; after refrigeration it could come from anywhere.
Books and television are cheaper than they've ever been before; movies are more available.
Yet I grow food in my garden (inefficiently) and play instruments for fun (not very well), because modern life is so convenient I can do those things. I'm thanking my lucky stars and never worry about what regrets I might have in the future but also have to answer my daughters' questions whether they will have those luxuries.
At age 85 I might have regrets that I should have done more to preserve things for the next generation. Then again, we're terrible at predicting the future...
Billions of humans died before we got where we are.
I don’t really see a reason to a) push each other as hard as we do; that hard for incremental linear economic gains inequitably distributed? To gain even more minor improvement? Haha b) see the need to do perform harder as much more than a chemical delusion
Billionaires got there by gaming biology, not building the entirety of society. I’d be a billionaire if I had a network of sycophants telling everyone I’m a billionaire too.
Our culture has jumped the shark. I look forward to the bubble bursting.