(I kind of took the 'ten years' thing and ran it back to when I was young, in the 80s and 90s, sorry. :-)) I don't think I ever have to change the oil in my ca

(I kind of took the 'ten years' thing and ran it back to when I was young, in the 80s and 90s, sorry. :-)) I don't think I ever have to change the oil in my car over the duration of my lease. Synthetic lubricants, tighter tolerances, and better seals are amazing. Plus, at what other time could you get a 400+ hp car that can get 26+ mpg? The safety features are insane. The wipers and lights come on automatically and the car buzzes (or so I am told) if I drowse off behind the wheel. I can listen to punk rock in the middle of Wyoming, but I won't have to because my car will plot a route around it. Clothing has gotten much better for less, but that's largely global supply chain. I checked into a hotel in China and my room had a pair of throwaway trainers for walking in the city. I can safely fly between any points in Europe with the change left over from a beer. I can walk into an optometrist and get a box of contact lenses for my astigmatic eyes and wear a clean, new pair every day, all for less than hard lenses cost decades ago and for which I would have to wait weeks with multiple fittings. And they still sucked, especially in a windstorm. Bicycles that would be insanely futuristic when I was a kid, with disc brakes, aluminum frames, and more gears than I need, cost the same as my hunk-of-steel Schwinn. Bread! Coffee! They are so good now! Best of all, my toilet cleans me.