[abirch]

"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

[Aurornis]

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.

[pixl97]

Until kill bots start blasting your neighbors, or we heat the climate to the point vast areas are not survivable.

Quite often the conveniences we take have a long horizon before they bear their true cost.