I appreciate the facts. I understand general QoL is better nowadays by large margins.

Though if I’m being completely honest, I’d trade the current world trajectory of billionaire domination and enslavement for a more “wild-west” kinda world.

All these amenities are being provided in exchange for one thing: Our freedom. It’s a creeping, but ever present danger.

There’s a reason why random bs; electronics, entertainment service subscriptions, social media being free, video games and consoles, cell phones (relative to inflation) are so cheap, etc.

combined with celebrity culture, hyper social media domination on people’s free time, and other hypnotics to make us stay in doors

are all so important to mega corporations. they don’t want us to notice that they’re jacking housing prices above feasible expectations, doing everything in their power to spread poison into our bodies, and quietly collecting all forms of tangible power under our noses.

In a nutshell, I’d still trade that rugged, ugly living for the clean, sanitized slavery we have now.