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There are a couple of sentences in "Dune" about this:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Granted, most of us are not choosing this.

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We turn our money over to investments, hoping this will set us free.

That's a new thing in the world, ordinary people investing in their savings, 401k, retirement, mortgages, index-linked accounts. Not many hundreds of years old, but people advise it as if it's as solid as the mountains. And work for 50 years watching the numbers go up for the carrot of freedom at the end.

I would say we have already chosen this.

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