It’s not that pre-industrial life was idyllic, peaceful, or non-exploitative. That most people no longer know how to make fabric or sew clothes is not something bad, except perhaps insofar as it makes people more reliant on the market. New technologies and labour-saving processes can be good things: the problem is who owns the technology required

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That’s why, even with AI, we are still fixated on tools that help us do more, faster.