Right now the way society is organized, you can cut costs by becoming impersonal and standardized. Like McDonalds has lower cost per sandwich than a mom-n-pop s

Right now the way society is organized, you can cut costs by becoming impersonal and standardized. Like McDonalds has lower cost per sandwich than a mom-n-pop shop. But this is being subsidized by effective slavery of the working classes. If they weren't coerced by starvation, they'd walk off the job. But the job they'd walk onto instead, is quite likely to be a return to personal food, retail, etc. Like, Amazon might have trouble finding warehouse workers, but owner-operated bookshops would boom. McDonalds would have to go robot, but the cooks would be working at Mom's Diner.