Morgan Housel

For me, it's my kids right now.

That'll change when they're on their own.

For some people, it's work.

Some people, it's religion.

Whatever it might be, the independence to be who you are and to chase something that is bigger than yourself, work on a problem that is bigger than yourself.

I think it's – you have to choose your words carefully when you say this because you can really offend a lot of people.

But the average, ordinary, median, middle-class American today earning $60,000 or whatever the median income is lives a life that would be indistinguishable from magic.

to somebody 100 years ago.

I mean, that's true.

Just the access to the simplest things that you and I never think about, Advil, sunscreen, let alone phones and the internet and whatnot, would have seemed like magic to people.

It is also true, and this is the important part, it's also true that nobody wakes up

thinking about how magical Advil is and how grateful we should be to live in a world that has Advil and penicillin.

Nobody, the speed at which a luxury becomes a necessity is two seconds.

And you can easily imagine a world in which our grandkids

live in a world that if we could get a glimpse of it, had a time machine and could see how they're living in the world 2150, be like, I can't, you guys must be, wake up so happy.

We've cured cancer.

We've done all these things.

We're a multi-planetary species, whatever it might be.

And they won't appreciate any of it.

because it'll just become a normal thing.