Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most …

Hannah Arendt
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Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condition: Second Edition, p.4, University of Chicago Press
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