It always seemed like a chore to gather and sort laundry, load and unload the machine, hang, fold, etc, but we've now been without a machine for a few weeks, an

It always seemed like a chore to gather and sort laundry, load and unload the machine, hang, fold, etc, but we've now been without a machine for a few weeks, and doing it by hand really is an exhausting chore taking a couple of hours every day, and the misery is compounded by knowing that a machine could be doing it for just pennies in electricity. Someone should design a cheap and efficient (and modular, repairable, hackable) volksmachine and arrange to have it made and distributed for free or very cheaply, thus releasing a few billion extra hours a day for people to do something more meaningful.