Fair enough but even if you separate out that aspect, one still has to do the work of learning to use the computer both in general and then specifically finding an online source vetting that source as best they can etc.
Also, if I concede that it is easier, does making things easier damage society? We can certainly get around more easily with cars than on horseback. Is society worse for it?
I don’t disagree with your view point at all brother. Life is massively easier today than it was 20 years ago and it was easier then than 20 years before.
I guess my point is that easier doesn’t guarantee better imo. For example, being on horseback was definitely harder than going in a car, but for sure the horse ride made you healthier (physically and possibly mentally). The effort from a horse ride would have made the end destination more of a positive due to the effort to get there.
there are good and bad from technology advances, in the same way that robotic automation can bring costs down, it also costs people their jobs (the whole point of robotic automation is that it’s cheaper than people).
medical advances keep people alive for longer, but people have to work longer to pay for an ageing and growing population. Food shortages in developing countries is a very real problem.
our development as the human race has contributed to climate change (and the speed at which that is advancing has ramped up significantly since 2000 on every chart I’ve ever seen) etc
no one can deny the undoubted upsides some of this stuff has down
but there are correlated negatives
I’m just saying that in my opinion, society as a whole was happier and healthier (i mean more mentally than physically but physically as well) back in the 80s and early 90s than it is now. Suicide rates are ridiculous in this world where things are so ‘easy’, a girl I was friends with ended her life for no logical reason on the surface. She had her own flat, had friends, a job etc but she felt isolated from other people apparently.
im waffling a little here but just find it weird that for all the amazing advancements, on the stuff that actually matters, like happiness and health, we appear to be going backwards