One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.
Is this an “iron” law?
It makes sense and I would be prone to agree. But maybe new technology and advancements are luxuries when they are first introduced, but then become necessities because people recognize how much the change is needed.
Plenty of luxuries remain luxuries because their purpose is solely the enjoyment of the person who owns/uses them, not to solve a problem or to bring humanity forward as a whole.
