
The Future of Stuff
Building Tomorrow
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The Domestic Revolution Was Not Equally Distributed
As industrialization began to progress from the east coast into the midwest, you can watch the burden of housework falling solely on the housewife. In other words, the material revolution was not equally distributed. The big winners from new domestic technologies were men, children and people who now did vanishingly little work inside the home compared to the past. We absolutely do not appreciate our miraculous, ma real possessions as much as we ought. Our stuff has truly liberatory potential. It improves our lives in a thousand almost forgotten ways.
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