The audience watched a video of two young men from Zanzibar rowing in a wooden boat at sea and throwing their fishing nets into the water. These fishermen caught beautiful fish. Before going out on the water, these young men were sure to catch a good catch, because after looking at the sea for a while, they finally saw a shark, which is a good sign that there are many fish is. Locations.
When I saw these young men dragging their nets on the beach, I said to myself: “Easy ?! These two people have more problems and complexities than fish.
And I'm definitely right. When I need fish for dinner - I do this regularly - I go to a restaurant in my spare time to look for fish. I arrived at the restaurant in peace and ease, and my food was immediately cut on my table, seasoned and prepared. Alternatively, I sometimes take a few steps to the nearest supermarket and buy fresh or frozen (or pre-cooked) fish as I please.
Finding fish is very easy for me and other modern residents of our Paramood ancestors and for those who have not benefited from modernity today.
Of course, the truth about fish is true in almost every aspect of life. Contrary to many claims, life is not as simple as it is today. We are not ancestors, we live a "simple life".
Imagine what it was like for a typical farming family in New England more than 200 years ago. When he woke up on a cold winter morning, he had to put out the fire. As the fire had not yet started, the operation was carried out in an unoccupied house. The house did not have a thermostat controlled AHT room. And the person who started the fire did not have an automatic lighter or safety seat to light the fire. The artificial stumps were not ready for lighting.
The kitchen had to be turned on by hand and just like a stove.
Self-healing without tap water, liquid water and antibacterial soap was less boring, less comfortable and cleaner than it is now. They had to milk the cows - the temperature below zero is not far from the "easy" task in the morning, I think. And buying milk is not as easy as going to the supermarket.
Even then, it was not "easy" to convert live animals to table meat compared to the fact that almost all of us take meat for our table. If I kill my cattle, pigs and chickens, I'm willing to believe that the meat I get in restaurants and supermarkets will be sweeter than the meat I buy. But I do not want to believe that the taste improvement will be big enough to make up for the big problem I had with the meat.
After the shower? Two hundred years ago, in rural America, bath water had to be heated in a flame before it could be poured into a container. (Forget the shower) Back then bathing was much easier than today.
Would you like to visit Uncle Josiah, who lives 180 miles from Providence? If you can not ride faster than a horse, you get off, you really go. So that journey, by today's standards, is also easy. It was not comfortable.
Today's anthropologists only have to look at themselves and those around them if they want to find the simplest group of people in history.
Most of us now wake up and spend most of our time indoors, indoors and in the winter with automatic HVAC systems that keep us warm in the summer and pleasantly cool in the summer. We literally go to supermarkets and restaurants around the world for food. Sometimes we go to the farmers market because we and our farmers use cars, sidewalks and refrigerators because many of today's farmers receive credit cards.
Compared to our ancestors, it is now much easier for us to communicate without hearing. In fact, for most of our ancestors, real-time communication was not as simple as "easy". It is now much easier to enjoy TV, satellite radio, video and music broadcasting, post books and board games overnight, cell phones, laptops, YouTube and the internet.
How much easier is it to call city or suburban transportation than to call or chase taxis with Uber or elevator applications? Answer a lot.
Or consider washing your clothes. We just throw our dirty clothes in clean carts with lots of soap. easy come easy go.
To the bank? We simply deposit our payment electronically into our account and then send our payment in various electronic ways. Say goodbye to the "complex" dance by personally going to the bank and writing and sending checks on paper.
The 24-year-old quickly told me that Dordash used his hand to search for a paper napkin that was sent home within 20 minutes. This saved him from the complicated task of driving to the supermarket to pick up and buy towels. When my son was reluctant to cook or leave the apartment, he was ordered to deliver fresh pizza directly.
The journey to modernization can be described in detail. The lives of our pre-industrial ancestors - and indeed the lives of our ancestors - are much simpler than those of many or more generations. Compared to the past, it is very easy to eat, as well as wet, dress, hold, clean, repair diseases and injuries, comfortable and safe, information and fun, and transport back and forth.
If you read these words, your life is the simplest that people have ever experienced.
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Donald J. Boudreaux is a member of the FA Haik program of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the American Institute of Economics and George Mason University Mercatus Center. Member of the Board of Trustees; And George Mason, professor of economics and former professor of economics. He is the author of The Essential Hay, Globalization , Hypocrites and Half-Wits , and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , American News and World Report , and several academic journals. Cafe Haik writes regularly for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review blog and economic column . Boudreaux holds a doctorate in economics from Auburn University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
This issue first appeared on AIER .
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