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On 29 Dec 2024 00:53:43 GMT, rbowman wrote:

[snip]

> Is that progress? Beat's me. I was at a museum that had a display of the
> development of household labor saving devices. It noted that when
> housewives received all these new time savers they tended to find new
> things to spend the saved time on.

Including ridiculous standards for "clean".

> Filling your house with Victorian
> kitsch didn't advance civilization.

-- 
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal