

All true, and we also need to consider the enormous societal costs to all this innovation. We truly are not happier, we have “simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation,” and we are rapidly trashing the planet to uninhabitability. This…
Nadav, I hear you. But it’s also important not to romanticize the past. Yes, there are lots of negative externalities to fix in our current society. But more people are living longer lives, have enough to eat, and have a roof over their head than ever before. This is non-trivial. We could all be living in a Hobbesian world in which life was “nasty…