On the other hand, my wife wouldn’t have survived to this age if not for technology that wasn’t available in the 1900s.
I can answer those emails from my air conditioned office or house.
I have time to answer them because we’re not spending all of our effort just trying to survive or working the farms.
Seems like a good trade to me.
Until kill bots start blasting your neighbors, or we heat the climate to the point vast areas are not survivable.
Quite often the conveniences we take have a long horizon before they bear their true cost.