It’s a fascinating essay, but non-automation isn’t all that great. In particular, Confucian China had foot-binding for nearly a thousand years—mothers slowly breaking their daughter’s feet to make the daughters more marriageable.
It’s possible that in the long run, societies with automation are even worse than societies without it, but I don’t think that’s proven.
Well, I don’t think that foot-binding is necessarily a result of Confucianism directly, and even if it is, I see even less connection to the anti-automation aspects. You could also say that Confucianism as it was practiced bears about as much relationship to what Confucius actually taught as modern Christianity bears to what Jesus actually taught.
It’s a fascinating essay, but non-automation isn’t all that great. In particular, Confucian China had foot-binding for nearly a thousand years—mothers slowly breaking their daughter’s feet to make the daughters more marriageable.
It’s possible that in the long run, societies with automation are even worse than societies without it, but I don’t think that’s proven.
Well, I don’t think that foot-binding is necessarily a result of Confucianism directly, and even if it is, I see even less connection to the anti-automation aspects. You could also say that Confucianism as it was practiced bears about as much relationship to what Confucius actually taught as modern Christianity bears to what Jesus actually taught.