High usage of resources for low expenditure of man-hours directly correlates to higher quality of living.
You couldn't afford an air conditioner if transportation was expensive, power was expensive and every step along the way was running on paper records.
But transportation, power and administrative overhead (and a whole laundry list of other things) are cheap enough (in terms of labor) that you can afford to get and use an air conditioner and you are better off for it.
We want fast and efficient transportation, power generation, record keeping and information management (and other things) because those things add a labor cost to just about everything in our word.
It helps to think of money and time as being convertible to and from each other.
High usage of resources for low expenditure of man-hours directly correlates to higher quality of living.
You couldn't afford an air conditioner if transportation was expensive, power was expensive and every step along the way was running on paper records.
But transportation, power and administrative overhead (and a whole laundry list of other things) are cheap enough (in terms of labor) that you can afford to get and use an air conditioner and you are better off for it.
We want fast and efficient transportation, power generation, record keeping and information management (and other things) because those things add a labor cost to just about everything in our word.
It helps to think of money and time as being convertible to and from each other.