Double Clever
It’s pretty easy to think that smarter humans mean that we’d have fewer problems. But all it really means is that we’d have smarter problems to deal with! Just compare life today with life for humans 300,000 years ago. Back then, cavemen worried about how to survive animal attacks and catch food.
Thankfully, most of us don’t have to worry about those things today. But that doesn’t mean life is easy – instead, we’ve got a whole wealth of other issues, like relationships and money problems. Just because we’ve gotten smarter doesn’t mean our problems have reduced. They’ve just changed into a different form.