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1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have ... made life unfulfilling,

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Those who live unfulfilling lives do so by their own choice. The progress of mankind has allowed humans to do, learn, be, and experience more than ever before. There have always been hoardes of unfulfilled humans leading desperate lives (peasants, serfs, ,,,). Those who decide to live automaton unfulfilled materialistic lives would probably have led automaton unfulfilling lives on a farm or primitive village as well.