Why do modern people feel they are gradually losing the ability to live?

Many believe it’s because they have become lazy, or don’t know how to cook, lack social skills, or can’t manage their time.
But more accurately, what modern people have lost is not the ability to live, but the system of living.
In the past, people had to personally participate in every aspect of life: making fire and cooking, repairing items, caring for family, handling relationships, obtaining information.
Life itself was a complete and continuous system; as people engaged in these processes, they also constantly built connections with the real world.
And the development of industrialization and commercialization has continuously broken down these links into standardized services.
Not knowing how to cook can be remedied by ordering takeout, not repairing things can be solved by calling a craftsman, not obtaining information can be addressed through algorithmic recommendations.
Survival has become increasingly easy, but life has also been outsourced bit by bit.
Over time, people have gained greater purchasing power but lost the ability to maintain the operation of life; they have achieved higher efficiency but reduced contact with the real world.
We know more and more things, but have fewer and fewer personal experiences; instant gratification has become easier, but it’s increasingly difficult to derive a sense of value from long processes.
Therefore, the confusion of modern people is not that they don’t know how to live, but that after survival has been taken over by the entire social system, we suddenly realize that we no longer know how to actively participate in life itself.
Efficiency solves survival problems but cannot create a sense of life.
And true life experience has always been born from the ongoing relationship between humans and the real world.