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Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance by avz on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:29AM (#15109594)
Hopefully automation will reduce the need for humans to do the boring, repetitive jobs and increase the number of people working in jobs they find rewarding and interesting. I doubt we could eliminate the former completely and have everyone doing the latter, but it seems that automation may improve the ratio significantly.
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Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance by JetSpiegel on Sunday August 27, 2017 @04:13AM (#15109689)
I bet people said the same thing when Watt perfected the steam engine. I'm not buying it, workload will simply increase to compensate productivity improvements.
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Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance by rhaps0dy on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:03AM (#15110625)
Ah, but if people said the same thing, people were right. The number of repetitive jobs (being a peasant, moving your hand up and down a loom) has indeed decreased.
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Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance by coldtea on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:50AM (#15110773)
Being a peasant (in the sense of someone working in the land, not as the subject to some feudal lord) was much more free and far less repetitive than being a factory worker (or an office drone for that matter).

People also don't understand how many free hours those people had (because a lot of farm work is seasonal).

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Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance by brianwawok on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:54AM (#15110790)
Farmer in the winter sounds like an OK job as long as you had enough food stored away.
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Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance by coldtea on Sunday August 27, 2017 @10:25AM (#15110913)
Depends on the place. The mediterranean winter (which I am aware of) in places like Spain, France, Italy, Greece, etc, was not that much of a deal.
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