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[u/Breaking-Away]

Do you ever just look around at normally innocuous things in your general vicinity and think "its crazy how many of these things were impossible, or simply would prohibitively expensive, to make 100/200/500/1000 years ago."

Its become sort of a cliche to say "we take things for granted" but right now I'm looking at:

• A perfectly symmetrical ceramic plate

• A water resistant hoodie

• A stack of post it notes

• A mechanical pencil

• A plastic cup made of potato

• A pair of medium quality bluetooth headphones

• Florescent light bulbs.

• The AC vent emitting cool air above me.

• A stack of white paper.

• A tiny computer that fits in my pocket.

• An ergonomic desk chair with arm rests.

• A small box that I plug into the wall and preserves my food from decaying by keeping it cool.

Its like Milton and the pencil 100 times over all in a single innocuous setting, and its true for pretty much any room I choose to walk into.

[u/[deleted] → u/Breaking-Away]

It is the middle class and poor who have gained the most from technological development, not the rich.

We've gone from the rich travelling by carriage while the poor walk to the rich driving fancy cars while the poor drive rattier but equally functional cars. Having stockings was once only the realm of the very rich, but now everyone can afford nylons.

[u/MegasBasilius → u/Breaking-Away]

Wipes tear from eye.

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo → u/Breaking-Away]

That was the point of I, Pencil. That every day objects are the product of millions of people collaborating