While i sympathize in some ways, i.e. looking back things are quite something to compare with the past, the reason we aren't happy yet is that things are also s

While i sympathize in some ways, i.e. looking back things are quite something to compare with the past, the reason we aren't happy yet is that things are also still kind of shitty. Cars are still a brilliant way to get killed; cars are extremely inefficient. Oil is going to run out at some point. Traffic monitoring works only in some places. Internet via cellphones is generally prohibitively expensive, and quite laggy compared to wired internet. Cellphone UI and especially data input is still an order of magnitude slower than mouse and keyboard. Smartphones, if used with some regularity, do need a recharge once every two days at least. I don't even want to think how ineffecient they are. Humanity's knowledge in the internet is difficult to access and only really accessible to those who spent a lot of time learning how to search it. I write software for a living too, but i've no idea if it'll ever benefit anyone. Sometimes i spend more time on a software solution to a problem that could be solved faster with less time in a manual way. I enjoy all the fruit in the supermarket, but i don't like to think about which elements along that supply chain live a life that's much worse than mine and don't get even remotely adequate compensation. etc. I hold both of these truths in my mind: Things are amazing. Things aren't nearly as amazing as they were thought to be.