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When you automate an industry you modernize it when you automate a life you primitivize it.

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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
New York
Automate
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Modernism
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Life

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