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In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.
Topics
- Economy
- Devices
- Collectives
- Names
- Dogma
- Ifs
- Real
- Saving
- Mankind
- Community
- Ends
- Standards
- Thousand
- Function
- Century
- Consumerism
- Labor
- Speed
- Process
- Achieve
- Stable
- Cages
- Efficiency
- Higher
- Form
- Extravagant
- Would Be
- Futility
- Limits
- Want
- Wasting Time
- Squirrels
- Nineteenth Century
- Overconsumption
- Standards Of Living