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Maybe, if automation relieves us of much physical and mental toil, the old utopian dream of leisure and cultivation of the mind and body could be realized

Possibly, for those with the right mental attitudes and capabilities.

However, for several generations now, people have been relieved in practice of "physical and mental" toil in several communities.

British slums, American Indian reservations, US ghettoes.

Not much toiling going on in these areas.

Also not much "cultivation of the mind and body." More like their destruction.

Look I get the idea that there is much to gain, theoretically, from a world where the need for human labor has been largely or entirely removed. However, our actual history of groups for which that has been accomplished, even when provided with material stuff their ancestors never had, is not promising.

5 posted on 05/28/2015 7:53:06 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

That “utopia” is a Marxist one.


9 posted on 05/28/2015 7:57:38 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sherman Logan

The Amish have a solution that works for them. There will be a boom in copycat communities at some point. It might be fun to start one. It could be argued the global warming cult is an Amish start up. Its early leaders are living large.


22 posted on 05/28/2015 8:32:57 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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