The article isn&#x27;t talking about the relative wealth of modern, industrialized&#x2F;technologized society to medieval times.<p>The point is that a single mom (with an 80% chance of being &quot;poor or hovering on the nasty edges of working poverty&quot;) probably isn&#x27;t worried about how much Netflix, or rather cable TV, costs when she can&#x27;t afford someone to watch her child so she can go to work and make money to pay for food and a roof over her head. She isn&#x27;t going to pull out her iPhone and call an Uber to drive her to work from this place she AirBnB&#x27;d last night -- adding it to her Snapchat story, of course, before she heads out the door.