The Progress Paradox
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Read on Hacker NewsThis is just one point of many made in Gregg Easterbrook's The Progress Paradox . It describes ways life continues to get better, but people feel worse despite it.
Read on Hacker News…dness into one binary value: Yes I'd trade permanently; or No, I prefer my life here-and-now. (This is a variation on Gregg Easterbrook's thought experiment in his book, The Progress Paradox.)
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