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> "What have you got against machines?" said Buck.

> "They're slaves."

> "Well, what the heck," said Buck. "I mean, they aren't people. They don't suffer. They don't mind working."

> "No. But they compete with people."

> "That's a pretty good thing, isn't it--considering what a sloppy job most people do of anything?"

> "Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave," said Harrison thickly, and he left.

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano