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Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

You're also ignoring the massive rise in literacy rates as compared to when books were new. Most people simply could not read them.

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[–] sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 point 1 year ago

I was thinking about the time before the internet, like 1980s, not like the more distant past

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