Yeah I don’t mean to imply we won’t have hardship in the future, just that the kind of hardship might evolve from “I can’t get enough food to survive” to “I must figure out how to throttle my hard-wired desire for salt, sugar, and fat”.

And that’s a very different problem technology may have to solve for.

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Do We Already Have Too Much?

At least at this stage of human development, hardship is not hard to come by. 

I haven't had much hardship in my life, but the two or three serious hardships have usually resulted in growth and good things in my life. 

I don't think that over-abundance is too much of an issue really. Most people will have challenges presented to them through the rough edges of life. 

Perhaps the thing that our relative abundance can do for us is teach is to see to the challenges we do face as valuable events. 