| ▲ | alchemical_piss 4 days ago |
| The future needs serfs, not readers. |
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| ▲ | georgeecollins 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| Perhaps, but the past also needed more serfs than readers. I don't think that is good, but maybe it is too idealistic to think you can create a nation of 330m critical thinkers. Not because it isn't possible, but because not everyone wants to approach life that way. |
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| ▲ | int_19h 4 days ago | parent [-] | | The past needed more serfs than readers until the Industrial Revolution, but once we got those going, all that machinery required skilled people to operate. | | |
| ▲ | p1esk 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Did making things without machinery require fewer skilled people? | | |
| ▲ | int_19h 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Depends on what you're making. Pre-industrial society was mostly concerned with growing food to feed itself. Things like say blacksmithing or advanced weaving certainly did require skilled professionals, but they were proportionally a tiny minority of a society consisting mostly of farmers. |
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