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every society assumes that its particular tastes and values are universal truths, and thinks that any society that doesn’t share those tastes and values is by definition ignorant, or backward. Our culture’s obsession with replacing human capacities by machines is a case in point. It’s very nearly unquestioned in modern industrial societies that getting a machine to do something that human beings would otherwise do is a good thing; even nations with crippling rates of unemployment persist in using a definition of productivity that amounts in practice to seeing how many people can be put out of work by replacing their labor with machines.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:00:21 +0000

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