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Me online: (posts a story about how Americans are spending more time working than peasants in the dark ages. This is a real thing)
A bootlicker: They didn't have cars or cell phones.
Me: Yeah, why are we still working harder in a world that has such great labor-saving devices?
@interneteh how else are we supposed to maintain all those cars and cell phones
@interneteh they aren't labour saving, they are extensions of the last mile
think about who, two hundred years ago needed to read letters!
they had personnel to read thru that.
you get to not only read and answer them yourself, you also get to sort out what's important, and what isn't, yourself.
also, cars! for the last century cities have been designed for cars! and now, with car sharing, you literally have to walk a mile to a car…
@meena cars have issues, yeah, but it's hard to argue they're not a labor saver compared to, I dunno, a cart that some medieval dude pushed around all day.
@interneteh yes, but you still have to get a license, build and maintain the infrastructure and so on and so forth
the problems, in both examples, stem from the individualism.
cars don't solve it, they make it worse.
@meena I'm not making an argument in favor of cars. I'm just pointing out that internal combustion engines save labor, which they do. That was my only point.
@meena complaining is fine! I love it myself
@interneteh i actually moved away from Vienna, because the constant complaining people do there was starting to wear on my sunny nature
@meena I have no preconceived notions about people from Vienna..except maybe that they like coffee