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You're deluding yourself if you think you would get the same lifestyle by giving up your own post-90s technology. The world as a whole has moved on. Maybe map books aren't at every gas station now. Even if you don't have a phone, the people you talk to are going to be checking theirs while dining with you, or distracted when they get a notification.

I suspect you're not old enough to properly remember the '90s if you really think this would be the equivalent.

I'm not saying it was all sunshine and rainbows (people smoked everywhere, did tons of cocaine, and were probably more openly homophobic/misogynistic/racist, and if you got in an argument over a factual detail you couldn't look up the answer right away).