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Despite the XXI century being awful, there are some inventions that make life easy if compared to XX century.

Internet - you can find censor free information, also free music, movies and books.

Digital checkout at the supermarket - if you were born in XX century, you can remember how slow the queues were because cashiers had to do everything manually.

Digital healthcare card - if you were born in XX century, you can remember how slow the queues were, because all documents were on paper.

Debit card - If you were born in XX century, you can remember how banks were able to easily own you because of the credit cards excessive payments.

Feel free to add anything else that makes life better today.

Despite the XXI century being awful, there are some inventions that make life easy if compared to XX century. Internet - you can find censor free information, also free music, movies and books. Digital checkout at the supermarket - if you were born in XX century, you can remember how slow the queues were because cashiers had to do everything manually. Digital healthcare card - if you were born in XX century, you can remember how slow the queues were, because all documents were on paper. Debit card - If you were born in XX century, you can remember how banks were able to easily own you because of the credit cards excessive payments. Feel free to add anything else that makes life better today.

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[–] • 4 pts

Cashiers used to be very fast. They were rated on ten key speed, code memorization, customers served, errors, and attitude with customers. It used to be skilled labor. It was much better than anything offered today.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I agree. Now they've put in these kiosks to get their customers to do their work for them. I already have a job, thanks. I'll go ahead and wait in line for a cashier.

[–] • 2 pts

You must not deal with very many sheboon cashiers then

I'll happily take my 4 items to the self checkout then listen to / smell that and have it touch my produce

[–] • 4 pts

the toilet i use it everyday.

[–] • 1 pt

A truly brilliant invention that the Third World has not yet managed to get up to speed on, after the passage of almost two centuries.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Can opener.

Can.

[–] • 1 pt

The can opener is an invention we never knew we needed until they invented cans. Admire the brilliance of it, from a Jew perspective -- invent something that everybody needs because of something else you invented.

[–] • 1 pt

Cash beats credit or debit any day. A skilled cashier and bagger is 5 times faster than the jigaboo in front of you trying to ring up his own 40s. Healthcare stuff is getting faster but it has a long way to go. The internet was way fuckin better before social media.

In short. I disagree. Now some good ones:

Tvs. New tvs are way better. Lighter bigger clearer prettier.

Food options. Hipsters did one thing good. They whined about fancy bullshit and expanded the food market in most places.

That is it. That is the entirety of better things.

[–] • 1 pt

The only invention that I find extremely useful in the last 20-30 years is the internet. All others have been around in one form,one way or another in the 20'th.

I can live without a smartphone, I truly do not need 10+GB of ram and super smooth screens with 100+hz refresh rate that can take a picture with a 20+megapixel camera and can store hundreds of movies,hundreds of thousands of songs and has ultra high speed internet. The fuck am I going to use something like that for? Like ever in the real world. What....am I going to play crysis remastered on 4K ultra on my phone or something?.

I actually miss the cashiers at the supermarket. They had a job, as shitty as it was,they had a job,a job that gave them a small chance at life,they payed taxes that we all benefited from in one form or another,and they bought products with their money,those products in turn stimulate the economy,even if just by a little.

I had a human to interact with,even just by saying hello, thank you...that sort of thing, it made me feel better,made their shitty job feel better. And if I had an issue, I knew that a human was on it,not a machine that could not figure out my specific problem. Same thing when you have an issue with power going out. Imagine the "luxury" of not speaking to a robot, but an actual human, someone that understands what your problem is and can connect you to the proper guys to fix it. Instead of wasting 30 minutes with an automated voice that can only give yes or no answers.

[–] • 1 pt

I get a lot of value out of the Gillette double-sided safety razor my father gave me when I was around 15. I'm still using it half a century later. It is one of the few perfect inventions in the world that cannot be improved on. When tightened into place, the blade is held at the perfect angle for shaving, and when loosened, it is easy to wash out the soap and stubble with a shake under running water.

I wonder if, back in the 1950s, Gillette intended to make a razor that would last over 70 years? Well, that's what they did. There are lots of them still around, and several companies make new ones on the same basic design.

If you are using one of those phony three-bladed, or four-bladed, or five-bladed razors that the razor makers designed to replace the safety razor, which get clogged up and don't work very well, I urge you to catch a clue and change to the double-edged safety razor. You've been wasting your money and getting shitty shaves in the bargain.

[–] • 1 pt

Damn good choice! Used one I got from my dad too and even gave each of my sons one that they still use to this very day. You can't improve on perfection.

[–] • 0 pt

Modern automotive technology

[–] • 0 pt

Various flavors of self-driving cars and integrated navigation. Having turn-by-turn navigation is a heck of an upgrade over a road atlas and a compass. Having the vehicle manage speed, distance, and keep you within the lane is a dramatic quality of life and safety improvement. Particularly for "merge onto the highway, now stay on this road for the next two hours" trips. While you're attentive for driving on city streets, good luck avoiding road hypnosis while driving straight on the highway for hours.

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