I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mou…

Henrik Ibsen
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ✨ Henrik Ibsen (1961). The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts
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