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Thus, our most pressing problem: ''what to do with all the spare time we’ll suddenly have?'' | Thus, our most pressing problem: ''what to do with all the spare time we’ll suddenly have?'' | ||
Seeing as | Seeing as we won’t be needed to operate [[Jacquard loom]]s, wipe arses, write [[A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Book Review|wishful dystopian techno-political tracts]] or [[Change manager|manage business change programmes]], we will have no option but instead to loaf around, playing each other at [[chess]] and drinking grappa, the way Mediterranean pensioners have since time immemorial. | ||
Sounds great, doesn’t it! (Best not to dwell on the thought that the [[robo-slave]] serving the grappa and wiping our arses could wipe the floor with us at [[chess]], too, if it wanted to.) | Sounds great, doesn’t it! (Best not to dwell on the thought that the [[robo-slave]] serving the grappa and wiping our arses could wipe the floor with us at [[chess]], too, if it wanted to.) |