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> A lot of these jobs make people miserable anyway A lot of these jobs also make people happy, though. That is why the loss of manufacturing in particular was
by randomdata 3y ago
> A lot of these jobs make people miserable anyway
A lot of these jobs also make people happy, though. That is why the loss of manufacturing in particular was such a blow to Americans. People love manufacturing – to the point that having small-scale manufacturing facilities in one's garage so that one can keep on manufacturing things on the weekend is a dream of many.
- walleeee 3y agoThis is a foundation of the liberal tradition and one on which e.g. Smith and Marx would agree: human-scale industry is among our most fundamental (and prolific) predilections Moreover that it tends to produce better outcomes than the frantic, often brutal thrust of the greater industrial revolution This is not to condemn labor-saving ingenuity but to advise deep consideration with regard to social and material technologies