Status Updates From Tools for Conviviality

Illich is more radical than me, but the basic argument is worthwhile, and if circulated more widely would push the overton window in the right direction.

Very excited to learn more about convivial tools. This critique is very important to identify how to stop the existential risks posed by unchecked technology.

“The richer we get in a consumer society, the more acutely we become aware of how many grades of value—of both leisure and labor—we have climbed. The higher we are on the pyramid, the less likely we are to give up time to simple idleness and the apparently nonproductive pursuits” (80)