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very interesting thread. Anyone see that PBS "reality" show (this one was actually real, instead of the fake crap the other reality shows put out) where they had several families try to make it out in the middle of nowhere living as the pioneers did? It was VERY interesting, and I think points to what this thread is (I think) really about.
I don't think anyone's upset that we can buy gas to heat our house or that we can buy clothes and food instead of having to produce them ourselves. I think what people are upset about is that very few people work for themselves anymore. Most of our jobs involve enriching someone else. We get paid, but we have no satisfaction of having built/made/done something with our own hands that we then use ourselves. It's a more efficient system when you look at it from an economical standpoint, but it also goes against thousands of years of nature and evolution - something which is deeply ingrained in us and which we are now almost universally denying.
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