- harvesting more food in a day than 100 slaves could produce all season long.
- keeping my family comfortable by warming up the house -- without having to chop
wood and breathe ashes.
- cooling off the house with the push of a button
- getting my teeth cleaned with sound, filling cavities with xylocaine
- traveling on a 4-lane highway, arriving at my destination hours, maybe days,
before I would have in 1804
- flying in a Boeing 757
- living safely in a home that can withstand a moderate earthquake or severe storm
- having pure drinking water available with the twist of a wrist
- keeping food fresh with refrigeration
- having hot water available at all times, for only pennies
- enjoying good health with the help of antibiotics
- enjoying the benefits of instant electricity
- doing more and producing more with gasoline engines
- completing assignments, making calculations, designing buildings, learning about
the world around me, aided by computers
- watching a NASCAR race
- learning and being entertained by television; seeing important events around the
world as they happen
- tampons
- The Division of Labor: specializing in the production of one item and being able
to chose from 50,000 items made by others and sold at Wal-Mart.
- eradicating diseases like smallpox, polio, with vaccines
- preparing food quickly with microwave ovens
- watching the Lord of Rings (the movie) in Dolby® stereo
- watching Alabama (the band) in the front row of an arena with 10,000 other fans
- eradicating pests and disease with DDT
- bringing a symphony orchestra into my living room with a stereo CD.
- increased leisure time
- steel pipes and purification systems which remove human waste from the streets
- steel automobiles which eliminate animal waste from the streets
- sleeping on a visco-elastic foam mattress
- cell phones
- glad I don't have to wear corsettes
- end of government-enforced segregation