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Originally Posted by aceventura3
What is happening is that the "man" hours needed to produce something like a ton of steel has been greatly reduced, just like we went through a reduction in the "man hours needed to produce a bushel of corn. Society benefits by productivity gains, it frees up "man" hours to serve man-kind in other ways. This is a good thing. What is wrong with fewer farmers and more artists? Or, fewer steel workers and more masseuses?
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Good point. As I recall, back in the 1960's there were those like Buckminster Fuller who speculated that in the future productivity increases would require fewer and fewer workers and society would have to figure out a way to distribute wealth to the masses. As the wealth concentrates at the top, I don't think it is realistic to expect them to support all the new artists and masseuses, etc.