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by Gatsky 2364 days ago
I didn't mean to say it was an accident, but at the same time surely you aren't claiming it was an inevitability?
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It is inevitability. Increasing productivity is the goal of technology. Look at technology from the dawn of time, all it did was increase the productivity of labor, both individually and as a group.

Without getting into a huge topic - it also encourages a "winner takes all" set of conditions, in which companies with the right technology and the best employees control a disproportionate amount of the profits in their field.