"People tend to infer that because some inventions have revolutionized our lives that inventions are good to endorse and we should favor the new over the old. I hold the opposite view. **The opportunity cost of missing a “new new thing” like the airplane and the automobile is minuscule compared to the toxicity of all the garbage one has to go through to get to these jewels** (assuming these have brought some improvement to our lives, which I frequently doubt)." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[joy-of-missing-out]], [[innovation]], [[opportunity-cost]], **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]