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Ed Pawlowski

On 3/9/2016 5:06 PM, wrote:

Everyone is already benefitting, as evidenced by the greatly reduced
number of hours of labor required to purchase the new appliances.

No, those people that have been replaced by a machine and loose thir jobs are not benefiting.

Suppose we take development to an extreme Nth degree, and machines do everything and noby has to work excrpt only one guy has to push the button to turn it on....

does he get all the money and everyone else none?

How do you divide the fruits of society if machines do all the work?
Is it Utopia or Distopia?

Mark

You can't push the button on the machine until somebody builds the
machine. The toaster assembler may have to get additional training to
do a new job though, just like the guys from the buggy whip factory did.