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Re:The human cost of the Kindle by icelancer on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:18PM (#17276252)
>> By increasing productivity through industrialization and technology advancements, and by doing those things before the rest of the world.

You seem to be ignoring the human labor part that happened around then and the backbreaking work that they did. Robots didn't get it done nor did the 40 hour work week.

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Re:The human cost of the Kindle by colechristensen on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:29PM (#17276297)
Increases in productivity would have been _faster_ with shorter work weeks, but would have been detrimental to the wealth concentration such is the cost of capitalism. Reduction of hours is, to a point, a source of growth.
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