The invention of machines has extended the amount of leisure which is possible even while one is at work.
John Dewey
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Democracy and Education (1916); Exact wording and attribution checked. Dewey immediately qualifies this possibility: workers need education and meaningful participation to benefit; not a claim that automation automatically gives everyone leisure.
- Democracy and Education (1916)
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