Tim Urban

You know what?

If you did, you would adjust and you get used to it and you might not be that much less happy than you are now.

So on the other side of the, you being okay going back, you know, you, we would survive if we had to go back.

You know, we'd have to learn some skills, but we would buck up.

And, you know, people have gone to war before that were in the shopkeepers a year before that.

They were in the trenches the next year.

But on the other hand, if you brought them here, you know, I always think it would be so fun to just bring, forget the hunter-gatherers, bring a 1700s person here and tour them around.

Take them on an airplane and show them your phone and all the things it can do.

Show them the internet.

Show them the grocery store.

Imagine taking them to a Whole Foods.

Likewise, I think they would be completely awestruck and on their knees crying tears of joy.

And then they'd get used to it and they'd be complaining about like, you don't have these oranges in stock?

Why didn't you have bananas?

Yeah, it's like we don't even know what...

We don't even know the proper levels of gratitude.

Walking around the grocery store, I don't know to be like, the bread's nice, but the bananas are like, we're so lucky.

I don't know.

I'm like, oh, I could have been the other way.

I have no idea.