[datsci_est_2015]

Isn’t this just Baumol’s cost disease?

Gains in efficiency due to technology improvement, as far as I know, are always attributable to fewer people being able to do more / produce more. There are some things that will never have gains in efficiency. Technology will not reduce the number of players on a football field from 11 to 10.

[skoskie]

I've always heard it called the Pregnancy Principle – or maybe it's just a corollary.

"Nine women cannot do in one month what one woman can do in nine months".