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Re:Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next? by frostmatthew on Saturday January 31, 2015 @10:00AM (#8976847)
> If this is what hundreds of years of progress and planning has led to, I think we have failed.

You're saying this after complaining spending eight hours a day (presumably five days a week) at your desk. That leaves far more leisure time than most [working class] people had "hundreds of years" ago.

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Re:Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next? by jwatte on Saturday January 31, 2015 @03:35PM (#8978005)
While this comparison is true for 100-200 year ago industrial jobs, and farming in subsistence conditions, the original hunter gatherers had plenty of free time, and that's what we're evolved for. Main problem is, there's to many of us for hunting and gathering to be sustainable...
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