"If you consider that many of the intellectual tasks we once had to do supposedly soon will all be done by AI and the menial backbreaking tasks to robots. That leaves us to do exactly what?" Sorry. I thought it was an actual question, but I see your were just goofing.
Mostly due to decreased infant mortality.
Medicine, I guess. My point was that life expectancy numbers are skewed by high infant mortality rates.
Improvements in sanitation, clean water, nutrition, vaccination, obstetrics, and infectious-disease control.
Yes, that's true. What we have not seen yet is the backside, or decay side, of that arc of history. Population ballooned to 8 billion, when energy becomes more scarce, famines are sure to arise. Populations in the most developed countries are suffering several profound problems: 1. very bad health both physical and mental as both the food system, and the environment become clogged with carcinigenics and other debilitating chemicals. 2. declining reproductive capacity. 3. Growing disapproval of authoritarian governmental arrangements that impinge on authentic freedom. 4. A growing economic impoverishment as technology aids the economic winners to extract ever more from the economic losers. ex: Gen Z is unable to buy homes as easily as their parents did.
4. I live in Michigan, and no, they're not. At least if you want to live in a decent area. Every post war starter home in my town gets knocked down when it's sold. They're replaced with homes 2x or3x the size priced at 500k to 1.3MM. I bought our little house when I was in my mid 20's. Can the average 26 year old do that today?
In many places the valuable thing being purchased isn't really the house—it's the land and the location. The land appreciates; and the older house depreciates.
**** that. My family has lived here for generations. I live in a normal middle class town, not Beverly Hills. Everywhere is becoming unaffordable for the average person.
