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From Story 77: "... Here is a good subject for an argument or debate: Are we any happier with all these inventions than people were a thousand years ago withou
by bjornlouser 3y ago
From Story 77:
"... Here is a good subject for an argument or debate: Are we any happier with all these inventions than people were a thousand years ago without them?
Life is faster and more exciting; but it is more difficult and more dangerous. Instead of enjoying a book curled up in the corner of a sofa by a crackling fire, we leave a steam radiator and go out to the movies. Instead of singing or playing the violin, we turn on the graphophone or the player-piano and miss the chief joy in music, the joy of making it ourselves. Instead of the jogging drive in an old buggy behind a horse that goes along through the country-side almost by himself, we speed on in dangerous autos, to which we must pay constant, undivided attention or be wrecked..."
- cm2012 3y agoIt's barely a debate, children are dramatically, insanely better off today than 100 years ago. Data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-al...
- actionfromafar 3y agoOnly if you count a certain way, I guess. How many children died in 1920? How many children died in 2020?
- cm2012 3y agoYou're saying the world is worse off because we have more children alive today than 100 years ago? Weird way of looking at things.
- actionfromafar 3y agoI’m saying more people, literally, are worse off. But it is weird, I guess. Even in the story, most people didn’t walk away from Omelas.