Professor Horwitz, author of the recently released Hayek’s Modern Family, reminds us how lucky we are compared to idealised life of the past in this piece for FEE.org.

He also mentions Doctor Hans Rosling’s brilliant Ted Talk (video below) about the "Magic Washing Machine".

Oh we do take so much for granted these days.

Professor Horwitz emphasises:

“Life has never been better and easier for humanity. Market-driven innovation has allowed machines to do our work for us and has brought us new and better products to make us cleaner and healthier, enabling humans — and particularly women — to have the time and health to do the things we love and that make us smarter and happier. Critics of capitalism too easily take that for granted…”