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From: pmorriso@gara.une.oz.au (Perry Morrison MATH)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Future Work
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Date: 12 Apr 90 01:05:47 GMT
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In article <9004101958.AA23998@stdc.jhuapl.edu>, jwm@STDC.JHUAPL.EDU (Jim Meritt) writes:
> EVERYONE on this list has access to more raw power, more information,
> better food, better housing, more comfort,....  than any of the Roman
> emperors.  

	Absolutely true. However, one has to question to what extent all of
these benefit us. e.g. our "better food" and more comfort have led to a
lifestyle that is distinctly unhealthy- witness the prominence of heart
disease and stress symptoms that are incurred in earning these things.
	Furthermore, there is no doubt that the resources that support these
things are taken from the third world at ripoff prices. 
	I'm not suggesting a cataclysmic end to this situation, but there is
no doubt that the hugely wasteful techological lifestyle that we lead in the
West has to be moderated. Even the Roman empire came to an end.