Think about it—an average middle-class person today? They're living a life that would've made an English king 200 years ago weep with envy:
- Back then, half the kids didn't make it to adulthood - No running water, no electricity, no comfort as we know it - Famine and plague were constant threats - Illness meant you probably died from it - War wasn't history, it was next door
Now? We've got heating, medicine, entertainment on demand, and most of us will actually live long enough to retire. That's not hype—that's the actual outcome of technological compounding over centuries.
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Tech revolution has actually delivered the goods.
Think about it—an average middle-class person today? They're living a life that would've made an English king 200 years ago weep with envy:
- Back then, half the kids didn't make it to adulthood
- No running water, no electricity, no comfort as we know it
- Famine and plague were constant threats
- Illness meant you probably died from it
- War wasn't history, it was next door
Now? We've got heating, medicine, entertainment on demand, and most of us will actually live long enough to retire. That's not hype—that's the actual outcome of technological compounding over centuries.