The Importance of Quality of Life in the Information Age

The extreme pace of technical innovation over the past three centuries has meant that quality of life by almost all metrics has massively improved for everyone. But even the richest and most prosperous king from these times would not hold a candle to the average American today. In the modern day, people from developed countries have robust housing with the ability to regulate temperature year round. They have robotic slaves that do their laundry and even the bottom dredgers of society like grad students have the ability to travel almost anywhere in the world comfortably and quickly. The information age has given rise to a modern, global upper class.