Just watching some videos and listening to webcasts about "Smart Grid" development and Electric Vehicles (EV's) and thought about how speakers at professional and academic panel discussions are introduced to the listeners by their accolades and achievements. Are people better off as productive units of an socio-industrial machine? Aren't people better off as people? rather than as automatons working like bees or ants for a runaway train society? A balance needs to be struck between efficiency and respect for human beings.
The Golden Rule of doing to others as you would have them do to you. If you dehumanize yourself by reducing yourself to your lowest common denominator in terms of work output or efficiency and your dreams and desires to 'utility units', it is ever more conceivable that you can dehumanize those who you misunderstand to be working 'for', and to be 'contributing to'. Humanize yourself and give back the humanity to those around you.
...ramble on...
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