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Call it bread and circuses but when people complain about the ever growing "wealth gap", I can't help but feel rich anyway. I've got a music player that stores
by noonespecial 16y ago
Call it bread and circuses but when people complain about the ever growing "wealth gap", I can't help but feel rich anyway.
I've got a music player that stores all my music in my pocket. It also happens to be a global communicator right out of the sic-fi I loved as a kid. All the money in the world couldn't have bought half so much in 1924.
If I have to suffer Steve Jobs flying around on his personal jet and tearing down his mansion to build a better one to have this, let it be. Or should I say "make it so"?
- shawndumas 16y agoEverythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy[1] ----- [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoIt's the hedonic treadmill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
- exit 16y agowhy should things being technologically amazing mean we ought to be happy?
- shawndumas 16y agoDo you like music? [Let's say you said, "yes"] So, music makes you happy. [Again, let's say you said, "yes"] Having technology that allowed you to have all for your music with you all of the time would make for more happiness.
- exit 16y agoThere isn't an argument for the general case in what you've said. Do you like sugary / high calorie foods? [Let's say your ancestors evolved in an environment without high concentration sources of energy, "yes"] So, sugary / high calorie foods make you happy. But technological advances making such foods widely available have made you obese, suffer from disease, etc. You really do enjoy your 2 liters of coke a day, but over all your quality of life has diminished. etc.
- shawndumas 16y agoaccess !== abuse