Why do we have these machines? Is economic effort an end, or is it a means to an end? Obviously it must be a means to an end. And the end must be the enrichment of human life, and the expansion of frontiers for human growth, not for just the few, but for the many.

— Walter Reuther Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association (1956)

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