Emphasis Preaching Journal
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Rube Goldberg contraptions were a humorous portrayal in cartoon form of humankind's search for an easier way to do something. We want to get away from inhuman forms of labor and are willing to devise ways to alleviate it. But this does not mean the time will come when we do not have hard work to do. The industrial revolution freed man from slavery in labor only to create a whole new category of problems, plus further unrest among the rank and file laboring classes in society.
Rube Goldberg contraptions were a humorous portrayal in cartoon form of humankind's search for an easier way to do something. We want to get away from inhuman forms of labor and are willing to devise ways to alleviate it. But this does not mean the time will come when we do not have hard work to do. The industrial revolution freed man from slavery in labor only to create a whole new category of problems, plus further unrest among the rank and file laboring classes in society.