Going Sessile

Travel has become unappealing beyond local weekend getaways, and trips are now worth making only for genuine novelty or when someone else pays for a managed experience. The same friction-versus-novelty logic is said to apply to music tastes, reading, political openness and tolerance for weather. The text says its own window for wandering ran from about 1998 to 2018, and that money can suppress friction only up to about 80, so longevity tech appears to demand more time and energy than the return justifies. It calls the trend not a good thing, though it sometimes resists it.