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Note that Brave New World (1932) already started to address the problems of plenty. > "The ethics and philosophy of under-consumption …" > "So essential when
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Note that Brave New World (1932) already started to address the problems of plenty.
> "The ethics and philosophy of under-consumption …"
> "So essential when there was under-production; but in an age of machines and the fixation of nitrogen–positively a crime against society."
(My headcanon is that it is sold as a dystopia largely because it presents a future devoid of english teachers; the savage proves his savagery by committing suicide, despite having been offered the islands: the Rumspringa of the world After Ford)