text: Industrial society , wrote Clark Kerr , president of the University of California at Berkeley , in 1960 , might undermine freedom ' in the workplace , ' but the compensation was the greater range of ' alternatives in goods and services , ' and thus ' a greater scope of freedom ' in Americans ' ' personal lives .
  
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  The greater scope of freedom in Americans ' personal lives brought by the industrial society is worth the price that we will pay .