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The industrial revolution was supposed to completely negate #3, and look where that got us...

• mlyle 4y ago
  > > 3. Most humans spend large amounts of time doing drudge, unrewarding work below their full developed potential that could be better accomplished in other ways. Most of us have more interesting work that more fully uses our intellectual potential than typical people had a few hundred years ago. And most of us also get more time in leisure, now, than people a few hundred years ago. I think there's progress, but it's uneven. Look at what step changes of using a little more human creativity and intelligence-- the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial and Information revolutions-- completely upending our society each time.
• eternityforest 4y ago
  The industrial revolution was kind of horrible, but we are finally starting to see the benefits in the digital age. We really do have more people working stem and less need for physical resource use, at least in some areas.
  • entropicdrifter 4y ago
    Yeah, now we just need to get people working less in general