Have we got all the low hanging fruit, or have we moved the floor up and new fruits are low hanging. How much better life is now depends on what you want to mea

Have we got all the low hanging fruit, or have we moved the floor up and new fruits are low hanging. How much better life is now depends on what you want to measure. For example, even with vastly more cars on the road road, our air quality is better in most major urban areas. Some of that is political, but a lot of it is technology advances since the 70s. The cars themselves are faster, safer and more efficient. Again some of that is political policy and a lot of that is technology. You can now light your whole home for the same amount of energy that you would have used in the 1970s to light a single overhead fixture in a room. All on the back of technology that didn’t exist until the 90s. For a mere $50 a month you can talk to anyone anywhere in the world in high quality audio and video for an infinite amount of time. In the 1970s just calling the next city over was a cost you had to worry about incurring, let alone calling someone half the world away. Almost all of the vastness of human knowledge is available for free or nearly free online, expanding your reach beyond what your local library has in stock. Yes there is a lot of junk out there. But there always has been a lot of junk. There have always been snake oil salesmen and scammers. There are more of them with new scams enabled by technology sure, but again that’s been true of all time. I don’t see evidence that we are uniquely overwhelmed with garbage relative to the benefits we’re accruing.