Sure, for most of human history, survival was a daily concern. It's just unnatural that in a time of record productivity and abundance, many still feel the same

Sure, for most of human history, survival was a daily concern. It's just unnatural that in a time of record productivity and abundance, many still feel the same survival anxiety. My point isn’t that we’re worse off than pre-industrial farmers. It is that progress was supposed to free us from that precarity, not repackage it with Wi-Fi and subscriptions.