Thankfully, my machine does not have dignity and readily handles my mood swings. I lived in India for a year. India has a weird relationship to machines. India can make machines with the best of them. But machines are seen as usurpers at the bottom of the caste system.
Labour is cheap, survival a daily concern and human dignity a foreign concept.
Roads, skyscrapers are built by hand and a slave is available for every task known to man. Here are 5000 bean counters. For India, and if you are Indian, this makes perfect sense. It is a culture that manages to function within the guidelines it set for itself. And it falls apart spectacularly when appraised by western eyes.