While reading "The Nemesis of Creativity"
It uses a Chinese sage to illustrate the fight against using machines:
"I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses machines does all his work like a machine. He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. Uncertainty in the strivings of the soul is something which does not agree with honest sense. It is not that I do not know of such things;
I am ashamed to use them."
Machines eliminate drudgery, freeing up time for better, more important things and doing things efficiently creates abundance. Simplicity is romanticised, I'd like to let things that can do themselves go do themselves allowing me more time for the fun parts. That's not to say 'turn off your brain' but backbreaking and mind numbing work isn't fun or noble. Whoever's doing it would rather not do it or has the option to NOT do it but chooses to. Those aren't the same thing.
AyanamiKaine · · focus · HN ↗
It uses a Chinese sage to illustrate the fight against using machines:
"I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses machines does all his work like a machine. He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. Uncertainty in the strivings of the soul is something which does not agree with honest sense. It is not that I do not know of such things; I am ashamed to use them."
It resonates with me similarly as the post.
saint-evan · · focus · HN ↗