If it costs 1/4 of a person and you have to get 4 machines... then it still solves the problem of being unable to find willing workers. Hell... if it costs mor

If it costs 1/4 of a person and you have to get 4 machines... then it still solves the problem of being unable to find willing workers. Hell... if it costs more than employees you can't find... then to get the work done, it costs more... Then it's either market forces push prices up or companies close. A large portion of the point of these "machines" is an answer to the labor shortage (and to a lesser extent, the rising cost of labor - IE fight for 15). Many of these problems will be solved by market forces - higher demand, more people working to solve the issues, issues getting solved, machines going into mass production, economies of scale, rinse, repeat...