Seventh law of worker entropy

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Inventions are not meant to make things harder. The JC asserts, without evidence but, he feels, without needing it, for it is as a priori true as is arithmetic or natural selection — there has been no successful innovation in design, commerce or technology in the history of civilisation itself that made life more tedious, difficult, frustrating or inconvenient than it already was.

See also

• Reg tech
• Why is reg tech so disappointing?
• Technological unemployment