You are aware this does not invalidate his observations, right?

Do you seriously expect people to simply ignore their life experience because what happened to them is not statistically relevant? (Even though statistically, human being are indeed shitty)

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Rousseau was wrong. Hobbes was right.

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Yep. And now you have all that time to do cognitive stuff rather than repetitive routine mindless tasks. So your brain is running in top gear 16/8 at best and 20/4 at worst which is incredibly taxing psychically. I've been teaching myself to ease off for 2 years now and still struggling. Shit is shit, I want to live in 2000s again

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If you're uneducated, unfornately yes.

If your primary means of living is your back and arms, a machine has multiple arms, need no sleep and work for no money.

you are right the USSR going from being a semi-feudal country to putting the first man in space in less than 40 years isn't technological advancement, all this without taking Nazi rocket scientists under their wing 😭😭

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As bad as the Soviet Union was, they still had advances in technology.

Yeah, right. Because people in the middle ages worked 9 to 5 and had everything they wanted.

Even our grandparents had miserable work conditions, and their life conditions weren't much better. Of course, there were almost some millionaires, kings and wealthy minorities, bit of you think you have it worse than your ancestors, let's hope they never invent a time machine because you will be very disappointed.

True. Many people get off to being seen.

Your comment is amazing!!

I mean if you want to go back to hand gathering berries and roots and chasing prey down (no spears though, gotta kill and eat it bare handed), you can totally do it, there's still plenty of wild lands. No fire either though, unless it's wildfire.

Technology and modern society is definitely not without it's faults, but this sentiment is absurdly naive.

And I say this as someone who somewhat shuns a lot of the trappings of modern life.

It's just funny when somebody says "life is so hard these days" as they sit in their climate controlled dwelling, typing on a device that holds the sum of all knowledge, and work likely less than full time at a relatively easy, though possibly still soul sucking job.

Technology has dramatically improved the quality of life for all of humanity and made things much easier. The fact that we tend to use that extra time to work more is a societal choice (or maybe flaw), not a reflection on the technology itself.

Longer and harder compared to what? I work as a granite fabricator, I use cnc machinery, if I had to cut and shape all of the countetops by hand I would be working much harder and longer.

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But before you leave though you have to hitch the team of horses to the wagon, gather the ranch hands, ford through a river, camp out at Wilson's Creek, THEN get to town, to only realize you can't read because you spent your youth learning to ranch and farm and not getting an education because everything had to be done by hand!

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You are misguided, technology did make thing easier and faster, it's corporation that make you work longer, harder amd for less money.

If they wanted to have a similar output from 50 years ago, we would only need to work (guessing here) 12 hours vs 40 hours.

We wouldn’t have advances in technology if it wasn’t for capitalism.

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Sounds like you’ve never been on a farm before and that is sad