The jobs are going whether we sign agreements or not.

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86. Yes, it is part of advancement in technology

there is just plain less work that has to be done and that which has to be done gets easier and easier. So we have to back off this work hard puritanical values, which meant something in 1600 but can't today. The whole idea of advancement is to make life better and easier, so we can survive with a lot less work. We have had more and more leisure as the centuries go by. But it shouldn't mean more poor people - it didn't before.

There was this special in TV panicking that Chinese people were starting to be able to afford washing machines and refrigerators. Like that was a bad thing. I guess they were more worried about the environment than the comfort of Chinese people, or if their concern was that the environment would be affected negatively then why do Americans get to be the only ones with washing machines and refrigerators?