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Don Y[_3_]

On 3/9/2016 3:06 PM, wrote:
No, those people that have been replaced by a machine and loose thir jobs
are not benefiting.

I don't think many people are being replaced by machines as compared to
being replaced by "cheaper people".

Also, a fair bit of stuff simply isn't getting done -- things that we
were accustomed to having done in decades past (witness IVR systems
that push the cost of customer support onto the customer; product
forums that expect customers to support each other -- instead of having
genuine support staff; pre-release product testing -- instead of
getting lists of bugs from folks foolish enough to be "early adopters";
etc.)

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?

Get a job fixing machines?? :-/