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Sure, if you're not into personal growth. Not everyone wants to become the useless bit of lard sitting in a chair while a computer does everything for them. Yet. Some of us still like to do the actual things, but just need some assistance along the way. We still have a bit of time before we're all the humanoids from Wall-E

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> We still have a bit of time before we're all the humanoids from Wall-E

Obligatory reminder that the movie itself explains that people are what they are not because of their lifestyle, but because of the time spent in low-gravity environment.

not sure that really matters to the point

Yeah thats why I mill my own grain and am getting into textiles.

I love when people use this pathetic extreme examples, when they don't have any meaningul arguments.

That isn't an extreme example at all, people used to mill grain and make clothing by hand, now we don't. We somehow are not sitting around getting fat even though technology takes care of those tasks.

The parents suggestion is that if we don't have to learn languages that will lead to us all laying down drinking big gulps while robot slaves take care of us. Their take is the extreme example. People have literally made this same suggestion about every technological advance and it never comes true.

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