Yes, these are exactly the questions I was left asking. Upper class
families use mechanicals instead of human servants -- it's a status
symbol -- but some menial jobs like shoveling coal in an airship
engine room are still done by people, with no explanation as to the
economic....technological....cultural? reasons. But if you think about
it for more than a few seconds, the whole house of cards falls down.
These books are all class fantasies, full of "young ladies of
quality," but if a significant chunk of working class jobs were
eliminated, that would send a shockwave through the class pyramid,
from the ground up. I mean, that's what the industrial revolution
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<p>Yes, these are exactly the questions I was left asking. Upper class
families use mechanicals instead of human servants -- it's a status
symbol -- but some menial jobs like shoveling coal in an airship
engine room are still done by people, with no explanation as to the
economic....technological....cultural? reasons. But if you think about
it for more than a few seconds, the whole house of cards falls down.
These books are all class fantasies, full of "young ladies of
quality," but if a significant chunk of working class jobs were
eliminated, that would send a shockwave through the class pyramid,
from the ground up. I mean, that's what the industrial revolution
<i.was</I> in part, and -- and -- and --</p>
<p>Yeah, I should not have to think this hard about books that profess to
be only for a lark.</p>
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Date: 2015-09-08 01:46 am (UTC)Yes, these are exactly the questions I was left asking. Upper class families use mechanicals instead of human servants -- it's a status symbol -- but some menial jobs like shoveling coal in an airship engine room are still done by people, with no explanation as to the economic....technological....cultural? reasons. But if you think about it for more than a few seconds, the whole house of cards falls down. These books are all class fantasies, full of "young ladies of quality," but if a significant chunk of working class jobs were eliminated, that would send a shockwave through the class pyramid, from the ground up. I mean, that's what the industrial revolution