It's worse than you think -- In most US States, you can pay people way under the minimum wage as long as their tips make up for it. So an average waiter might make 2 bucks and hour on paper. If they didn't get enough tips to reach minimum wage, the restaurant would have to pay them out on top of that, but it's just this fucked up cultural thing to give restaurant owners free labor that the customers pay for.
We don't have any other examples though. Maybe alien life all gets to physical dimension 5 by year 200 or something. Time being relative and all makes that somewhat feasible.
They're the good times because you see you had no responsibilities and endless potential to be so many things, which becomes less and less true as you age. Of course, it's miserable too not knowing what you are/what to do and feeling lost because you have no responsibilities, so it's really just a grass is greener thing I imagine.
Hey! I have this same problem BAD and I finally just accepted it and now I have multiple places I keep lists.
I ended up building a bookmarklet that you can take notes on for when you need to write something down but the "wall of awful" caused by opening your main Todo list app is too much. It's free and you can check it out here
OK guys -- Think about this -- What if you got shit on your hands or anywhere else on your body. Would you make this argument? Would you think that would be OK if someone told you they just wiped it off with a paper towel and went on about their day? no.
Reading Sapiens changed my mind about this a lot because it always confused me too. It's more about myths (of which we have a lot like the companies we work for and our countries) that allow us to cooperate, trust each other and work on larger more abstract ideas.
As for why it's still around today -- maybe it's not as late as you think it is -- We just made steam engines 10-15 generations ago
It's worse than you think -- In most US States, you can pay people way under the minimum wage as long as their tips make up for it. So an average waiter might make 2 bucks and hour on paper. If they didn't get enough tips to reach minimum wage, the restaurant would have to pay them out on top of that, but it's just this fucked up cultural thing to give restaurant owners free labor that the customers pay for.