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The Technology Of Mass Production Is Inherently Violent, Ecologically Damaging, Self-defeating In Terms Of Non-renewable Resources, And Stultifying For The Human Person.

There Are Three Things Healthy People Most Need To Do - To Be Creatively Productive, To Render Service, And To Act In Accordance With Their Moral Impulses. In All Three Respects Modern Society Frustrates Most People Most Of The Time.

Nobody Really Likes Large-scale Organizations; Nobody Likes To Take Orders From A Superior Who Takes Orders From A Superior Who Takes Orders.

Call A Thing Immoral Or Ugly, Soul-destroying Or A Degradation To Man, A Peril To The Peace Of The World Or To The Well-being Of Future Generations: As Long As You Have Not Shown It To Be "uneconomic" You Have Not Really Questioned Its Right To Exist, Grow, And Prosper.

From The Point Of View Of The Employer, It Is In Any Case Simply An Item Of Cost, To Be Reduced To A Minimum If It Cannot Be Eliminated Altogether, Say, By Automation. From The Point Of View Of The Workman, It Is A "disutility"; To Work Is To Make A Sacrifice Of One's Leisure And Comfort, And Wages Are A Kind Of Compensation For The Sacrifice.