[Dan40]

Labors future:

Saw a show about Mueller's pasta. They have a factory that covers many acres. Don't remember the number but remember thinking that is really huge.

Once their pasta was made in that factory by thousands of workers. Today they turn out more pasta and more consistent products than ever before. I'm not saying that they have an outstanding product. I don't think it ever was anything but a mass market product. I don't mean it is a bad product either.

The point is, today that huge factory has ZERO workers on the floor. Not a single one. A dozen people monitor the computers, otherwise it is 100% machines. From raw materials coming in one end and boxed and packed for shipment finished products out the other, all machines.

Businesses exist to make money, they have no other purpose. They have labor only because it is necessary to make money. But labor is more expensive and causes more breakdowns than machines. Thus, whenever possible labor is replaced by machines. Because Businesses exist to make money!