What would they be giving up? DoorDash?

By most aspects the world of 1990 didn't change that much from today's world, with the exception of having computers in our pockets and some advances in medicine.

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doubled112 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you can go back further

I used to work with a guy who would tell me that, except email, life didn’t really change since the 80s. All we did was stick a screen onto everything, whether we needed to or not.

I was only born in the 90s but I mostly agree that far back.

	▲	owisd 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I think you can go back further Reminds me of a line by John Maynard Keynes from 1919 about life before WW1 — “The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep”