Originally Posted by
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We're also spoiled with indoor plumbing and all kinds of electrical devices. Now don't complain when they go out. After all, you should be walking to the river to get your water and going outside to use the restroom. Anything else is contrived.
The key difference being that many of these features vastly increase, rather then decrease efficiency in our use of resources. And often easy to make yet more efficient.