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The future needs serfs, not readers.

• georgeecollins 1y ago
  Perhaps, but the past also needed more serfs than readers. I don't think that is good, but maybe it is too idealistic to think you can create a nation of 330m critical thinkers. Not because it isn't possible, but because not everyone wants to approach life that way.
  • int_19h 1y ago
    The past needed more serfs than readers until the Industrial Revolution, but once we got those going, all that machinery required skilled people to operate.
    • p1esk 1y ago
      Did making things without machinery require fewer skilled people?
      • int_19h 1y ago
        Depends on what you're making. Pre-industrial society was mostly concerned with growing food to feed itself. Things like say blacksmithing or advanced weaving certainly did require skilled professionals, but they were proportionally a tiny minority of a society consisting mostly of farmers.