Typewriters suck. Yet we're infinitely richer for those irritating machines

The invention of backspace made us all better off. Right?

Worstall on Wednesday One of the things we greybeards have a seriously difficult time getting over to the youngsters is quite how much life sucked back in the old days. It's easy enough to look at the bald economic statistics and see that incomes haven't moved up much (for the UK) or even at all (for the US) in recent decades."