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This is a really tricky position to take. How exactly do you measure the benefit of video chat with your grandkids every week, no matter how far away you live?
by lxmorj 7y ago
This is a really tricky position to take. How exactly do you measure the benefit of video chat with your grandkids every week, no matter how far away you live? Ubiquitous access to the internet?
- novok 7y agoIt's too subjective, which is why you need to focus on more objective things like those basics mentioned above.
- api 7y agoDoes that matter much when you are working two jobs to afford rent?
- briandear 7y agoAre most people doing that?
- nugget 7y agoThis hit home for me when I watched the movie Brooklyn. A hundred years ago, when you emigrated from Europe to America, you often left elderly family behind. You knew there was a high probability you would never see or speak with these relatives again. Your parting could very well be a final goodbye. Technology has certainly closed that gap in a very positive way.
- lucas_membrane 7y agoA hundred and twenty years ago, when you emigrated from Europe to America, you wrote back home and told them that steak was the most popular breakfast in America and that coffee was a luxury good in Europe because America was drinking most of the world's supply.
- austhrow743 7y agoHappiness and satisfaction with life ratings. Suicide statistics. Measure between societies that do and don't have access to those things.
- pascalxus 7y agowhere do you plug in the laptop to make that video chat, when you have no house to stay in? All our modern day luxuries are contingent upon access to basic shelter. That shelter is harder to get than it has been for a long time: at least in the coastal cities - where most of the jobs are.