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by 6510 699 days ago
It is more funny than I initially thought: We keep making things more complicated and secret in order to make something else less complicated. Even the luddites accomplished only to make things more complicated.

I found a similar treasure some years ago: How we take convenience for self-evident. We love to pretend everything should be as easy as possible. You should really never have to think about anything, never have to learn anything, never do anything, nothing involving muscles, endurance or fine motor skills. Life is best without developing and without accomplishing.