Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Steven Pinker

“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”

Wow 150 pounds…

In 1919, an average American wage earner had to work 1,800 hours to pay for a refrigerator; in 2014, he or she had to work fewer than 24 hours (and the new fridge was frost-free and came with an icemaker).

This is where people get confused, because they do not look at the bigger picture of time and how much they can learn from looking at history.