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W. H. Auden Quotes: Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
         

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.


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