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Try to read the first paragraph in this article[1] to understand better how technology improvements were handled in the past in France:

[1]http://www.economist.com/node/21524883

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It demanded that for each new computer, Le Monde should pay for one print worker to type on the keyboard and another simultaneously to watch the screen. It got its way.

This sounds like a joke made up by a Tea Partier about how unions cut efficiency. I can hardly believe it.