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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The point they're making is that during the creation of the middle class and increase of leisure time, that wasn't because of technology or increased production. It was due to labor organization, and democratic efforts to restrain capitalism. Technology just made the profits so flagrant, it was easy to make the case that the state should regulate them.