The things that make the maintenance of modern infrastructure easier themselves need maintenance. There’s also a hedonic treadmill effect, where we start to ex

The things that make the maintenance of modern infrastructure easier themselves need maintenance. There’s also a hedonic treadmill effect, where we start to expect the amenities that modern infrastructure affords and use them as a base for greater aspirations (ground travel is solved for the average person, now let’s solve air -> space -> etc)