Innovation conventionally reduces the work required to accomplish tasks. As the power of convenience makes life easier, what was once considered easy can become difficult. Easy is addicting, and addictions create dependencies that lead to demise. Strength that comes from convenience only comes after a struggle. The integration of innovative forces, particularly electricity, has and will continue to degrade our physical ability, work ethic and decisiveness as the human race. The ripple effects are intricate.

The physical capabilities of the human body have largely been altered by innovative, well meaning electrical devices. Nearly every commodity that could ever come to mind is now gained with a considerable decrease in physical output. Moving between floors in a building on stairs has been replaced by elevators. The physical labor once required to produce heat in a home for warmth and cooking has been replaced by buttons. Do not take this to mean that innovative devices are bad, they are extremely beneficial, however, using everything in moderation couldn’t hurt. While furthering preexisting efficiency, innovation kills anywhere it is not simply adding a boost to productivity.

While over the decades the younger generations grow less acquainted with physical labor and simple muscular output, work ethic has grown in demand. The easier things normally worked for are to acquire, the faster a standard of living can rise further than is willing to be worked for. It is not uncommon for procrastination to hinder work in the millennial generation. This is not the procrastination that is perceived of someone who is overworked, rather, someone who is the polar opposite. “Innovation” in entertainment can create ecosystems of ever flowing, ever numbing pleasure that are difficult for a young generation to extract themselves from. The addiction to consistent entertainment causes the simple chores of life to go undone, and eventually the work required to sustain it. Innovation, while good, kills from behind the screens.

Intelligence is, almost by paradox or counter intuition, destroyed by innovation. Skills that are usually built upon through the generations are lost to a technological piggy back ride. While it is true that every generation technically stands on the shoulders of the previous one, this is not true entirely in terms of electronics. At one point in time, when math was taught, it was taught without calculators and everything calculated was done so with the mind. Every new level of mathematical knowledge was layered over the last one, while all parts were chronologically used while systematically finding the answer. The first thing placed in a millennial elementary school student’s hand is a calculator. From the very start, the mental muscles are almost given a rite of passage into a no work zone, what was once considered a relief in great difficulty, is now the level at which great difficulty in comprehension starts. If intelligence is not destroyed by innovation, the middle class society is.

In every sector, deficiencies are creating sinkholes in life due to deep integration and reliance on technological innovation. While it would be difficult to suddenly stop using wireless internet devices or calculators, the instant realization of reliance would be noticed as lives crumbled under the weight of lost skills and uncertainty. Manufactured convenience kills as it provides. The ripple effect of innovation is almost as fascinating as considering the ripple effects of every single action made in life, both greatly influence each other. Choice is powerful when it is still available.

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