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by ben_w 425 days ago
Both are issues, for different people.

Art as nice things, vs. art as a peacock's tail where the effort is the point.

Fast fashion vs. Ned Ludd.

Queen Elizabeth I saying to William Lee, "Thou aimest high, Master Lee. Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects. It would assuredly bring to them ruin by depriving them of employment, thus making them beggars."