Seamus Padraig
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

“I remember back in the eighties my Mum telling me about how when I grew up, automation was going to take care of a lot of the work so it was important for the education of my generation to include hobbies.”

Funny you should say that, Caity. I, too, remember reading a bunch of articles back in the eighties telling us about all these wonderful, labor-saving devices that were in the works. And then, when I read that the birthrate was falling, I was really stoked. ‘Oh, boy!’ I thought. ‘There’s going to be a massive shortage of labor, and we’re all going to have ten-hour work weeks!’

Naïve youngster that I was, little did I realize that ‘labor-saving’ actually meant job-killing.

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