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I agree that people need to be productive, but I disagree that "we no longer pluck chickens and pick nits for a living because 200 years of education has made that an unacceptable avocation for most of humanity."
Most of humanity still does this sort of mindless labor. But instead of picking nits, then plucking chickens, they do one or the other all day, for someone else. -Solder these two connections, then put it back on the convyor belt. I don't think he is arguing that we should return to a peasant economy, but that our economy might resemble one in the sense that we spend more time doing things for ourselves.