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Behind the News: Living on Less w/ Kate Soper

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The Importance of Mixed Modes of Working

If we could move to a working culture no longer dominated by profit-driven ideas of efficiency, you could introduce other ways of working. I'm not saying we go back to the doomed era of the craft, but why don't we think in terms of mixed modes? For example, this is just my idea. The American economist, Stuilik Shaw, has talked about it in her book, Planetu. You actually have smart technologies in certain areas, cheap by gel, with some more craft-based artisanal modes of working where appropriate. Once you get away from the idea that you have to produce as much as you can in the short of possible time,. This is a sort

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