What We’ve Lost

What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life.

Amidst the constant drumbeat of tech “progress” and grandiose “solutions,” it’s a useful exercise to ask: what have we lost in the past 40 years despite all the “progress” and “solutions”? Put another way: what did we have in 1985 that we no longer have, despite all the “progress”?

1. We no longer have affordable, functional healthcare. As I have documented, based on what I paid as an employer and self-employe...