It's no longer just LaChoy and Old El Paso, at least in the better city groceries. They work sometimes, and can mean everything for the people who benefit. Maintaining consciousness while avoiding enormous pain is a big plus. Disposable contact lenses. You can wear them comfortably until they break.
Heads are happier.
Plastic shampoo bottles. One less little thing to worry about. Waning of childhood diseases. Let's not kid ourselves how important this is. It is difficult for those born in the post-war West to conceive what it meant that a baby was as likely to die in childhood as to grow up.