Example: There was a time when people didn’t salt their food
The water trap that’s in your toilet and sinks.
The only thing stopping your home from smelling like a sewer is a bit of water strategically placed.
Looms that make your shirts, carpets and anything fabric. Would be a hundred to a thousand times more expensive without it
Toilets.
Fridge and freezer is a big one imo, in terms of being taken for granted.
Transistors.
The first working transistor was created in 1947. Before then it was just vacuum tubes. Less than 80 years later the modern world relies completely on its existence.
You use billions of them in your everyday life.
As a Brit: the NHS. I can, and have always been able to, just call an ambulance in response to almost any medical emergency. I can walk into a minor injury unit with any minor injury and get it sorted. I can just call my GP to ask about things and book an appointment to get them seen in person. The only upfront cost I’ve ever had to worry about was the fixed price of prescriptions, and I only get charged for them if I earn enough. Earning minimum wage, the taxes that pay for it total about £150 a year.
Even with all of the attacks and defunding over the years it’s so thoroughly ingrained in the public consciousness that the government can’t actually get rid of it.
Boy pre salting is way back. Sorta pre civilization. I guess I could add cooked meat.
What is boy pre salting?
boy (referencing the op, similar to saying dude or man), pre salting is the act of salting food before cooking or eating.
close. im sorta old so it was meant to be more of an oh boy. Now that you mean it seems a bit rude on my part but @[email protected] just letting you know the boy was more an exclamation. like jesus but lighter.
Ain’t no thing
Empiricism. We need to acknowledge that not everyone considers evidence when determining truth and encourage it way more than we do.
Anesthesia
Families.
Call your mother. She misses you.
I’m with the infrastructure answer too. It really is too broad but in short, anything that kinda stumps you on your tracks once it fails. Just now for some reason I no longer have hot water, very annoying.
Paint
air conditioning.
All of them. Is there any invention you shouldn’t take for granted?
There are probably some you take for granted. It would be exhausting to be in constant awe at the wonders of the modern world! Haha
Honestly that sounds amazing. Being in constant awe at the wonders of the modern world.
Sign me up.
Capitalism.
Okay, you got me on that one.
But apart from capitalism, is there any invention out there we shouldn’t take for granted?
Antibiotics
