The point is, just because we have reddit and facebook now doesn't mean we're all just so much better off. The contribution of those products to our lives is rather trivial. Even the internet, while it's very impressive…
Hunter gatherers had violent lives, experienced starvation and died in their thirties. So it's not a fair comparison.
Facebook, Twitter, reddit are still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I have those things and they didn't. The internet isn't trivial but I wouldn't say that my life is SO MUCH BETTER because…
The point is, just because we have reddit and facebook now doesn't mean we're all just so much better off. The contribution of those products to our lives is rather trivial. Even the internet, while it's very impressive…
Hunter gatherers had violent lives, experienced starvation and died in their thirties. So it's not a fair comparison.
Facebook, Twitter, reddit are still trivial. I'm not doing SO MUCH BETTER than my parents because I have those things and they didn't. The internet isn't trivial but I wouldn't say that my life is SO MUCH BETTER because…