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I don't think it's laziness, it's just delegation of a time consuming process. In a similar vein, most of us no longer wash clothes using a washboard, grow our own food etc. Modern society is pretty much built around us not doing everything for ourselves and, as a result, we generally have a better quality of life.

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Washing machines are an obvious improvement to washboards though.

With the modern service oriented way of listening to music and watching TV, you risk losing what you purchased, you're manipulated by algorithms, you're trapped in the net of a service provider. Is that really less stressful than pulling out a CD and putting it in a CD player?

Digital media is better than cassettes. But the service oriented way companies expect us to do it now is not better. We really hit peak digital media with mp3 playing software on our smartphones. Everything since has just made the experience worse.

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