43 On Embracing Automation and Loving Work
Or Why We Should Not Be Afraid of Our Washing Machines
Tristram Hooley
Introduction
I never seem to have enough time. My life is full of work, both paid and unpaid. An amazing amount of my time is spent collecting clothes from my children and myself, putting them in the washing machine, then the dryer, folding them, taking them back upstairs, and putting them away. I’m sure that my partner would roll her eyes and say that it is she who does the lion’s share of this task. Yet regardless of who (certainly not either of the teenagers in the house) does the washing, within days, the clothes have been worn and reappeared on the teenagers’ floors. Surely, this kind of repetitive, ...
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