Series-AFigureLikeThat

A Figure Like That
milling machine in the seventeen hundreds
most work was done in the countryside in
farms or in people’s homes where as towns and
cities where just places where administration
took place and the nobility lived, but with the
emergence of factories in towns, the allure of
guaranteed paid jobs from these new machines
instigated thousands and then millions to move
to urban areas and the property prices in towns
and cities rocketed. It’s interesting Sophie
thought- while she flicked though her notes on
her tablet - that now, in the early late middle
twenty-one hundreds, even though most of
these industries had now been moved to the
countryside because the land was cheaper, that
a significant amount of the population still lived
in urban areas, it seemed the human
evolutionary need for social interaction,
convenience and of course the simple sheer
fact of laziness had beaten efficiency hands
down as survival was no longer such a threat
and people now had a choice and it seemed
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