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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"so now that this has been automated I probably only have to work one or two hours per day right?"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

[T]he power of each [Roman water mill's] wheel did not exceed that of a 250 cc motorcycle. This mordant observation highlights how technologically uncivilized we ourselves are, in destroying the environment by wasting on a few motorcycles enough energy to produce food for a whole town. But after all is said and done, our current system, based on the exploitation of nonrenewable energy sources, will last but a moment on a historical scale.

-Lucio Russo, The Forgotten Revolution

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"what do you mean you work more than an english peasant? We already think that they work too much"