Blessings of modern life?

From: R Webb, Wakefield.

I READ with great interest the letter from G Wright ( The Yorkshire Post, August 20). Life was certainly much harder in the 1930s and ‘40s, families finding it hard to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads.

Life was much more labour intensive, both in the home and earning wise. Can you imagine today’s youth working a mangle on wash day? Meals were home cooked, from simple ingredients. The only take-away being fish and chips, a rare treat.

Regarding stress, walking home from school and finding your family had been evicted from their home and their furniture put in the street was all too common an occurrence.

Today, many people live on ready-made meals and junk food. People live much more sedentary lives. The human body needs physical activity.

The unfortunate thing about computers, the internet and mobile phones is they make people lazy, or even criminals who can now commit crime from the comfort of their own homes by hacking. New technology is also a tool well used by terrorist organisations.

How these vile organisations would struggle without the use of new technology to radicalise naive people. Making the world a smaller place and things too easy seems to be proving more of a curse than a blessing.