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Scientifically speaking, time is a measurement of how much worse things have gotten. The irony is that this is also one of the oldest truisms that humanity has grappled with over the millennia. See: Hesiod's Ages of Man, Biblical Genesis, The Epic of Gilgamesh and many other Mesopotamian epics, the Vedic Yugas, etc.

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Are you saying that "entropy" = "worse" and that somehow these human stories of earlier golden ages reflect a law of physics? Seems much more likely that they, like this article, reflect the ingrained human psychological tendency to remember the past as better than it actually was...

> remember the past as better than it actually was

Yes, I very clearly remember the not so faraway past when shoes last decades, when non-filled soles (as opposed to e.g. grids of blades) would have been considered a crime and an obvious matter of public health, and similarly for the use of toxic materials.

I also remember the times when machinery used quality material and lasted accordingly; when blinding lights were obviously considered a basic matter of health and when beeps and bebibeep melodies were considered a nuisance. And much more.

I grant you: the past offered people and systems with common sense - now largely gone.

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