intended use of devices

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However, in the context of the full quote, they said it "causes the harvest to be small." The devices are relatively new. Therefore, the implication is that all of society's past polarization efforts (from prior lifetimes) are nullified, unless somehow most people's progress would somehow have had to be made in the last couple of incarnations, which seems wrong.

The harvest was already going to be small. It's just that this opportunity to increase it is being withheld.

I agree with that, but I don't see the implication of that at all from the Q/A.