I was still a kid when everyone (well, only women, men were working in the fields) in our village was going to the irrigation channel in the street with a piece

I was still a kid when everyone (well, only women, men were working in the fields) in our village was going to the irrigation channel in the street with a piece of wood, a bar of soap and the dirty clothes to do the laundry. It was social and those women enjoyed the company. Once washing machines became common, no one chose to go back to do the laundry by hand. They decided to walk together and just chat. I find unbelievable that a Dutch PhD candidate is so ignorant about the world around him and especially about the tough work that many women had to endure to wash the laundry. What is next? Asking farmers to stop using tractors and go back to horses and mules, while reducing our farming productivity 1:100 and as a consecuence a multiplication of the price of food? These modern socialist ideas of degrowth are very dangerous, specially for poor people. And that really exposes how far away are these intellectuals from the real world and from the same poor people they claim to support.