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The industrial revolution didn't lay everyone off, it just made everyone's jobs worse in every possible sense.
by beepbooptheory 2y ago
The industrial revolution didn't lay everyone off, it just made everyone's jobs worse in every possible sense.
- visarga 2y agoI don't think many would switch current life with pre-industrial life. You are idealising the past and discounting the present
- beepbooptheory 2y agoNot trying to value life in general at all, just the nature of the jobs. You might reply "distinction without a difference," and well, the fact that you'd think so would be one of my points about the labor ;). Personally, preindustrial life sounds pretty rough, but its all just apples and oranges! The future will continue to happen, to critique the present and how we got here is not to exhort the past (unless, you know, you are a particularly conservative person I guess).