alt Hacker News"one of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations."
Yuval Noah Harari
Think about email. There is usually an expectation of a response within minutes/hours and not weeks/months like mail of the 1900s
On the other hand, my wife wouldn’t have survived to this age if not for technology that wasn’t available in the 1900s.
I can answer those emails from my air conditioned office or house.
I have time to answer them because we’re not spending all of our effort just trying to survive or working the farms.
Seems like a good trade to me.