What is the point of so much unlimited everything when we are limited ourselves? No one can “reap” all the benefits so what’s wrong with taking it easier?
We do take it easier though, unfortunately the average person is unaware of how much more difficult life was 100 years ago so we can’t compare. I wouldn’t want to go back to even the 90’s, pre-fibre internet, slow computers, no spotify, I love listening to music so I had to wake up at 7am in the morning on Saturday to listen to the music TV show. I had to listen to the friggin radio man! It sucked!
Is more really better or just different?
We have different challenges living as kings and queens than we do before but we really are in a much better place than even 30 years ago, pre-smart phone, pre-computer, pre-wikipedia, pre-google
An example is obesity is now a bigger problem than hunger because we have access to so much cheap great tasting empty calories
But it’s certainly better to be obese than starving, you can stop being obese by simply working on yourself, can’t really do much about starvation if you’re poor and can only afford 1 meal every 2 days.
The other issue is the rise of social media and the infected spreading doomerism (see: this thread as an example), doomerism spreads faster than positivity, in the same way people prefer to read about bad things happening than good.
We do take it easier though, unfortunately the average person is unaware of how much more difficult life was 100 years ago so we can’t compare. I wouldn’t want to go back to even the 90’s, pre-fibre internet, slow computers, no spotify, I love listening to music so I had to wake up at 7am in the morning on Saturday to listen to the music TV show. I had to listen to the friggin radio man! It sucked!
We have different challenges living as kings and queens than we do before but we really are in a much better place than even 30 years ago, pre-smart phone, pre-computer, pre-wikipedia, pre-google
An example is obesity is now a bigger problem than hunger because we have access to so much cheap great tasting empty calories
But it’s certainly better to be obese than starving, you can stop being obese by simply working on yourself, can’t really do much about starvation if you’re poor and can only afford 1 meal every 2 days.
The other issue is the rise of social media and the infected spreading doomerism (see: this thread as an example), doomerism spreads faster than positivity, in the same way people prefer to read about bad things happening than good.