Some people really do follow this line of thinking all the way down to "the industrial revolution was therefore bad for humanity", but I think most people would

Some people really do follow this line of thinking all the way down to "the industrial revolution was therefore bad for humanity", but I think most people would agree that not true, so these simple narratives must be incomplete Jason Crawford has a really good analysis of this sentiment, trying to understand why people think this, on his Roots of Progress blog: https://rootsofprogress.org/the-spiritual-benefits-of-material-progress https://rootsofprogress.org/the-spiritual-benefits-of-materi...