It wasn’t a nice history. Lots of violence, pain, and suffering. Theft. Oppression.
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Did you learn that in school. Any serious anthropologist paints a very different picture, especially in regards to the Worlds indigenous peoples.
unlike today 
(1515)
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lol - exactly - we’re all so civilisaed & everything is so wonderful. There was a lot to be said of the actual reality of the lives of earlier hunter gatherers.
In the developed world this is very true. We can walk down the street (generally) without fear. We live with clean water and a wide range of food options, We don’t have to worry about being attacked by the neighboring hill tribe.
The average life span has increased from about 20 to almost 80 years Life is pretty good for most people (though not enough people, especially those with mental illnesses).
http://www.northeastplanning.com/adv_container/images/life_expectancy_400.jpg
Gawd, d00d. Ever washed clothes by hand? Made clothes by hand? Gathered all of your heating fuel by hand? Exactly how much time do you think the average person had to pontificate about alternate realities in the manner you do, say, a thousand years back? And however much your life sucked, make that x3 for women who were basically property. Ask a woman to live like pioneers did over a century ago (without modern feminine hygiene products) and she’s likely to punch your front teeth out.
People worked their arses off, slept, and worked them off again until they died young. That’s history, not the delusions you labour under.
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A bit strong - i take a far broader view of things. There have been pros & cons to living in every age/culture.
This society is delusional - Not me mate.
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I put dishes in the dishwasher, add soap, and hit a button. They come out clean. Can’t wait until home robots that load and unload the dishwasher become affordable. Oh, and with my skill set, I could probably find work fixing them. Cool, huh?
Automation is awesome.
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I’m familiar with your type. Two of your fellow travelers showed up at a Y2K dance I was DJing some years back with gas generators. Of Course the power grid was going to fail, and Of Course civilization was going to end (because everything about it was bad Of Course), but we’d party through the start of the apocalypse.
They took their generators home sheepishly after the dance when the predicted doom and gloom failed to materialize, as it always does.
I am pretty thankful to be alive today and am looking forward to the coming changes.
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Wonderful. i’m Happy for you. i’m all too familiar with your type as well.
We should all live in grass huts.
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My automatic ice maker broke down a few years ago and I was unable to fix it, so I have had to take over the job of filling ice trays, but I don’t mind because it gives me something to do while I’m just sitting around drinking iced tea and or water all day.
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I’m actually a fan of automation, I used to study robotics in Uni. It’s going to bring some challenges over the next twenty years, especially around wealth redistribution, but there’s a fair chance the net effect will be positive.
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We have it for a few years now , in the flying of planes. An important job that automation does very well , in fact it could save us from human error or poor judgement or indeed malevolence.
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I think Marx was right, I just don’t think we have reached the technological threshold to ditch capitalism yet. I am not sure where this threshold is, but I’d say it’s a way off - most definitely not in our lifetimes. We are making some progress, but this is limited.
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I wash my clothes by hand in my zink 
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Wearing animal skins. With a hunter gatherer lifestyle. Dancing and chanting under the moon.
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Better to become mindless robots in homage to the machine.
My point wasn’t that automation is bad but that people will make it bad.