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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Why stop there? Why the 1970s? It’d be way cheaper to live 1870s style. 600 sq foot wooden shack, no tv, eat what you grow or kill, no car at all.
Oh right because welcome to society and evolving lifestyles.
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The point is that our gains in productivity have benefitted us in dramatically higher material standards of living. Which answers the question posed of why we haven’t chosen to turn those productivity gains into more free time.