I do think that life is better with the internet, but a counterpoint I'd like to make is that humans are very quick to adapt to material change. Someone who go

I do think that life is better with the internet, but a counterpoint I'd like to make is that humans are very quick to adapt to material change. Someone who goes from making $600 to $8000 a month will see their stress levels reduced but the $8000 will quickly become just a number for them. To use another analogy, programmers will always quickly squander the gains made by the chips. I bitch and moan about webpack and React because I've never written a GUI in C, the intermittent gains are invisible to me. Now for kids born after the internet's invention, they don't even understand the benefits of having the internet. Those are invisible. The negative effects are crystal clear though. In my example, I am not saying webpack made life worse, but that it's easy to see what's wrong with it and hard to see what's right.