As we’ve become more comfortable and adopted more efficient technologies and stuff, we haven’t necessarily become more satisfied. Mental health issues are rising around the world. Many of these technological shifts are, in fact, causing our malaise. They’re disconnecting us not only from others but also from ourselves and ways of living that satisfy us. “Abundance brings with it problems,” McAfee told me. “We should prefer those problems to the problems of scarcity, but they’re still problems.”
