Purpose in a Post-Scarcity World

Joshua Derrick
9 min readFeb 19, 2021

The Magicians, Ecclesiastes and a refutation of Industrial Society and Its Future

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“In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job.” — Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

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Joshua Derrick

Every honest man puts his name to what he writes. Language learning, literature and biology. Blog transitioning to substack: https://deusexvita.substack.com/