The division of labor is the greatest friend of the worker that mankind has ever known. Nothing else comes close. Extra people or machines don’t ever take jobs from humans as much as they propel humans to much-more-specialized, higher-paid forms of work.
About what’s been written, it’s no idle theory. It’s basic economics. It’s what Adam Smith opened The Wealth of Nations with. Smith wasn’t inventing capitalism as some claim, he was merely reporting on capitalism. And in reporting on it, it’s no mistake that he opened with a pin factory visited.
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