For all the good *Technology* has done, it also has done some bad... Do you think the foods we now injest Mass produced, hormone injected and all, are better than the foods of my parents that could afford to buy organic vegetables, hormone free meats, grain fed chickens?
Houses are built with sub-standard materials now a days.
Electronics, Phones, TV's, household appliances are made to last no more than 5 years if that...
What was produced by a man's hands is now produced by technology, so are we truly better off?
The number of hungry mouths has far exceeded the capacity of subsistence farming. If we returned to the farming methods of the early 1900s there would be mass starvation around the world.
What was produced by a man's hands is now produced by technology, so are we truly better off?
Do you own a car? A TV set? A computer? All of those things are well beyond the capacity of a single man to produce. We depend upon an economy where division of labor and skills multiplies our abundance. Zimbabwe is trying your approach right now. The 20,000 white farmers who fed a nation of 13 million people and generated sufficient surplus to sell to nearby countries were run off their land and many were killed. What is left is subsistence farming by people who have no clue and a nation people starving.