The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. (Greg Palast)

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

Greg Palast

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