When I canvassed for a political campaign, it was one of the most fun jobs ever because we all lived and partied together.
The stock market has never declined over a 20 year period, but it has declined over 10 year periods, so if you're particularly risk averse, that could be quite the difference.
The reactionaries might say that the decline of fighting is indicative of the downfall of the masculine western man.
>standardization and interoperability (e.g. email, the Web
Unfortunately, we're seeing some unwinding of this, as the dominance of gmail makes it impractical to self host (because they refuse to deliver your mail), and with the rise of apps rather than web pages.
"An underappreciated element is that dishwaters calibrate how much cleaning they do based on the amount of dirt on the dishes."
Interesting. How?