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> My impression is that the Amish are living about 50 years behind us. They don’t adopt everything new but what new technology they do embrace, they take up abo
by heartbeats 7y ago
> My impression is that the Amish are living about 50 years behind us. They don’t adopt everything new but what new technology they do embrace, they take up about half a century after everyone else does. By that time, the benefits and costs are clear, the technology stable, and it is cheap.
Yeah, this is definitely a sensible approach to doing things. They get most of the benefits of modernity, but few of the downsides. I wish our regulators would do the same.
quasi-relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/606/ https://xkcd.com/606/