The industrial revolution's immediate effect was to radically lower lifespans and lengthen working hours. After all of those people suffered and died, lifespans gradually got long again, although working hours never went back to normal.
You might think it was worth it now because you got an iphone, but they didn't get an iphone.
Well, what they were doing before was sure as shit not going to get them an iPhone.
Just because a paradigm shift doesn't miraculously catapult us all into a post-scarcity economy overnight, that doesn't mean it's not an important milestone on a longer road.
The industrial revolution's immediate effect was to radically lower lifespans and lengthen working hours. After all of those people suffered and died, lifespans gradually got long again, although working hours never went back to normal.
You might think it was worth it now because you got an iphone, but they didn't get an iphone.
This could be a comment about the Neolithic Revolution
Well, what they were doing before was sure as shit not going to get them an iPhone.
Just because a paradigm shift doesn't miraculously catapult us all into a post-scarcity economy overnight, that doesn't mean it's not an important milestone on a longer road.