Warning: foolish, long-winded rant follows...

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Things have certainly changed a lot, but I don't see any improvement.

I see people still struggle all the same, only now we have more gadgets than ever before... yay.

Sure, I don't have to draw water from a well or dig a hole on the ground to relieve myself (though I'm sure there are folks living in the outbacks and they have no other choice...), and l'm somewhat thankful for that, even though I feel guilty every time I wash a plate and see all that detergent going down the drain, knowing that I'm contributing to the overall destruction of nature; we're all making our own bed, and one day we're gonna lie on it.

What brought all this "advancement" we see today is: some (smart?) people felt the greed to take the lead in a certain area, then had that "brilliant" idea to create something that didn't exist by then and make loads of money from selling it. Fast forwarding to now, we have cars, smart phones, espresso machines and all that.

However, billions of $$$ are (supposedly) poured into "research" for the cure of illnesses and yet not much has been achieved. Sure, we have vaccines for things that would kill us 100 years ago, but those vaccines were researched and brought up because it was either that or... extinction. Necessity is the mother of invention...

More money is spent on... ahem... "defense" than anything else. It's all about flexing muscles and see who's gonna be master or slave. Where's the improvement on that?

That's mankind for you: basically a life form driven by lust for power.