What has happened is that, basically, we have pushed productivity in all areas of our lives. The phones, internet, high speed commerce. We can do more but we expect more and people expect us to do more with this high speed stuff.
In a way we're just chasing our tail. All that efficiency depends on increased marginal costs. You have to put all that stuff to work in your life to make it cost effective. We don't spend so much time hand washing clothes and dishes, but we have to use the saved time working to pay for the machines and electricity.
Are we better off? Maybe. If you can spend more time doing something you like and using the profits to cover the cost of efficiency to take care of things you don't like doing.
The underlying cost is that we use a lot more energy to get all this work done and the cost is steadily rising. Furthermore, I'm not an enviromentalist per se, but I really wonder sometimes about how disposable things are these days; planned obsolescence for appliances, cheap consumer goods, the short lifespan of commercial buildings and even homes.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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