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> World record of 100m sprint kept improving even since car was invented.

A very good example! (...although probably not how you think it is ;)

Indeed the world record is achieved by a very limited number of people under stringent conditions.

Meanwhile people by and large† take their cars to go to the bakery which by foot would be 10min away, to disastrous effect on their health.

And by "cars" I mean "technology", which, while a fantastic enabler of things impossible before, has turned more people into couch potatoes than athletes.

† Comparatively to world record holders.






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