This is the Bezos question. Seeing Emacs on the frontpage made me think of asking this. Emacs is pretty similar today to how it was 10 years ago. What else?
Almost all the news from Washington in the last 9 months suggests that the process of government in the USA is now radically different. And similar changes have happened in more than a few other countries.
A secret war has culled the scrupulous from Power, and left the opportunistic immoralists you would think the industrialization of Power by Americans would perfect.
Ordinary people are enjoying their happy life. The comforts, the convenience, the prosperity.
The world slow burns and it takes ten years to see the consequences of what has come to pass.
We will not come to collectively see the world for what it is today, for ten years.
I'm middle aged and home appliances are the luxury purchase. Irons, ovens, vacuums, everything changed. But laundry didn't.
I live near the equator, so dryers are a luxury and clotheslines are the norm. We still don't buy dryers. Not even so much for the cost, but because they damage clothes in a way.
And even with Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow promoting laundromats as the key to financial independence, they're not used significantly more than they were in the past.
keyboards and mice are much the same.
people's laziness and love of convenience.
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