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@JessTheUnstill @platypus
Reminds me of an argument about the washing machine being the most important invention in history: it freed up a whole day each week for women to do other stuff (to work or go to school or whatever).

People always seem to mock the idea of 'giving your wife a vacuum cleaner', but i imagine it was way more appreciated by 1950s housewives than a shiny jewelry box that doesn't even has much resale value.

And somehow, the moment westerners stopped doing chores by hand we started thinking they are easy and effortless: i can't count the number of hippies i met who dream about 'a simple existence without machines' and think 'being home watching tv' is fundamentally the same as 'being home scrubbing floors'. You are at home, right?

And that can be pretty harmful: why strive for the poor to have washing machines or fridges if you totally could spend an entire vacation without them. Just dig a hole to keep your beer cool, people!