I like the idea, especially for highly-skilled knowledge workers (i.e. the people browsing HN) but I fail to see the broader applicability for other jobs. Imag

I like the idea, especially for highly-skilled knowledge workers (i.e. the people browsing HN) but I fail to see the broader applicability for other jobs. Imagine one has a machine that produces 5X widgets in 5 days. We now want it to be on for only 4 days and as such it produces 4X widgets but at the price of a 5X widget machine ... that just makes it more expensive ...