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A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy

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In the future you describe, humans continue to be treated as tools to be used by others. In the future I describe, people are not exploited for their labor but are free to follow their own desires. Or more succinctly, in my future people don’t have to work.

Not all work involves people being treated like tools. Much work involves people being treated like magicians. By finding "someone else" to treat like a tool (a robot) you are not only solving the wrong problem, you are keeping yourself stuck in the mindset that allows the problem to persist.

Very few enjoy the privilege of being treated like a magician. Practically speaking, workers are treated like cogs in a machine whose labor buys them another day’s survival. It’s difficult and painful for people and it doesn’t have to be that way.

Furthermore I have no qualms against treating machinery as a tool. There is no exploration of intelligent beings when you take advantage of the output of a tool. I want to end exploitation of living things.

Re: A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy

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> Find a society without historical sin The Minoans

Didn't they trap young people in a giant maze with minotaurs? I'm pretty sure minotaurs are specifically forbidden under the Geneva Convention.

Non exactly

The minotaur was invented by the Greeks that were jealous of Minosse's SWAG :)

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