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I don’t agree with what you said but there is something you didn’t bring up. There is a lot more that kids need to learn and it only grows. Makes things really overwhelming growing up. Your parent probably don’t even know half of what you learned.

I'm on my couch while my roomba vacuums, my dishwasher washes, and my clotheswasher does its thing. Technology has Definitely made my life easier.

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Opened this expecting a normal reddit circlejerk only to be pleasantly surprised at all the comments rightly pointing out how much better life is today than the past

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Like the death ray?

Politicians lead to inequality and long working hours, technology made work easier but also increased our influence on the world around us. Resource consumption and emissions go up as a result.

I think you want to be pointing the blame at capitalism, not technology. Technology is amazing and we have advanced much further as a species because of it

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It wasn't really like that though

Aging isn't the only way to die

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Maybe if you weren't on the internet all day long and opened up a book you'd learn that wasn't true

OP has clearly never purchased clothes, or food, or seen a car, or had access to the internet, or...

When I started doing the job I do, 25 years ago the report I had to do for an operation was two pages, a summary and a log, hand written on triplicate carbon paper pads. Now with the magic of computers that same report for the same job runs to eleven pages and takes a couple of hours to complete, then is uploaded. It's ludicrous.

There will always be jobs, they change change with time.

And we'll always be competing for resources, there's only so much to go around.

You see it a lot around here. This generation has convinced themselves that they work more than previous ones and that they’ve got it a lot harder. Not realizing they work about 10 hours a week less than previous generations and usually at work that is much easier.

>you can totally do it, there's still plenty of wild lands

No, no there aren't. You didn't invent the "go live in a cave" comeback.

I think I agree with the people who say that technology doesn't make life hard, we've just built a society that does not permit the benefits of technology to actually reduce the burden of "earning a living". We've increased productivity constantly since the microcomputer was invented, we've increased the efficiency of motors and lights, we've designed better ways to do everything. Yet jobs haven't gotten easier or shorter, and the cost of these "climate controlled dwellings" is becoming prohibitive to more working people every month.

If we're lucky, we earn enough at our meaningless job that we have enough time and energy left to volunteer for a job that gives us meaning or purpose. And if the productivity gains of technology weren't all sucked upward...

Nah, you'd be working similar hours delivering fewer products at a much higher price. Technology benefits your customers and your employer, but unless you're self-employed, it doesn't benefit you, because capitalism and market forces have made it so the benefits of your increased productivity are taken by others.

The reductio ad absurdum of capitalism in a word where technological advancement keeps happening. Making things easy should make life easier, but we've engineered a way for it to make life harder.

There's a really small time dilation because of gravity that under the right conditions can prove this wrong.

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Ours. Because we legitimately have more. More of practically everything. An average individual back then had less than an average individual now. That ancient Greek might only ever hear stories about animals other than what roams his neighborhood.