"The basic aim of modern industrialism is not to make work satisfying but to raise productivity; its proudest achievement is labor saving, whereby labor is stamped with the mark of undesirability. But what is undesirable cannot confer dignity; so the working life of a laborer is a life without dignity."
– E.F. Schumacher: Good Work (1979), chapter "Towards a Human-Scale Technology"
"Who, it may be asked, calls the tune? Fundamentally, the technologist. Whatever becomes technologically possible—within certain economic limits—must be done. Society must adapt itself to it. The question of whether or not it does any good is ruled out on the specious argument that no one knows anyhow what is good or evil, wholesome or unwholesome, worthy of man or unworthy."
– E.F. Schumacher: Good Work (1979), chapter "Towards a Human-Scale Technology"
You deserve good work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX3ZCK3n1_0
Mostly a quiet build video (16 min), with some quotes from a 1979 sociology essay mixed in between that still seem somehow relevant in the current state of the world.
"Before industrialization, it seems, time was an abundant resource. […] I'm not arguing that the preindustrial era was better, and that machinery is bad. But it does feel kind of odd that with all the time-saving technology we've acquired, people seem to have less free time than ever. Today, time is such a scarce resource, that repairing and maintaining the things we own feels exotic, and almost extravagant."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5vtHTdo8c
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