Ekaterina Sedia Quotes

Your people are losing your jobs to your machines. You put mechanizing everything and making it efficient above your people's happiness, and you wonder why they aren't happy.

Ekaterina Sedia

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  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Wonder
  • Happiness
  • Jobs