"Honestly, I wouldn’t be remotely tempted to quit the 2016 me so that I could be a one-billion-dollar-richer me in 1916." I wouldn't trade my current circumsta

"Honestly, I wouldn’t be remotely tempted to quit the 2016 me so that I could be a one-billion-dollar-richer me in 1916." I wouldn't trade my current circumstances for Elon Musk's or Jeff Bezos' current lives. Does that somehow make me richer than them? And I'm currently eating the likes of potatoes, oatmeal, and pasta. - A/C is nice. - I certainly can't afford to fly anywhere. - I pretty much don't care about package delivery times most of the time. - Radio is nice, as is Youtube (don't have a TV anymore). But back then you could count on everyone and their uncle to carry a tune or play an instrument. These days most of us can't make our own music to enjoy anymore, and are fully dependent on radio or streaming. - Most movies aren't worth watching. The live theater experience is great though, even when it's done by amateurs. - Being expected to carry around a phone kind of sucks, especially for those like me who don't connect to data services. No, I can't check my email on my phone. - I just spent 2/3rds of my life savings replacing a car I crashed with a used car that gets worse gas mileage than the old car. It would be nice not needing a car to commute with. - "Thai red curry or Vindaloo chicken or Vietnamese Pho or a falafel". As stated above, I'm out of luck for that anyway. I can't even justify buying the better tasting pasta sauces anymore. Still, I get it. But the funny thing is I don't crave tastes that I've never tasted before. So I don't see access to ethnic foods as that much enriching. - I do think the bare bones Comcast internet connection is worth the $53 per month it costs. - I've been to a primary care physician once in the past couple of decades. An emergency room twice, a broken bone clinic once, and about twenty years ago needed my head stitched up from a snowboarding accident (which wouldn't have happened had I lived long ago). I've always healed fast from cuts without needing antibiotics. - That era was the nadir of medical childbirth. - Fluoride is quite nice, but haven't been to a dentist in 8 years. - Regular specs have always been fine with me. - Birth control is nice. - But they had ragtime, man. - Manually syncing all of the non-connected clocks to DST is annoying.