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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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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.