I don’t follow. The part of the article you quoted is about appliances that allow us to achieve a given standard of living with less human labour. Isn’t this a

I don’t follow. The part of the article you quoted is about appliances that allow us to achieve a given standard of living with less human labour. Isn’t this a good thing, whether the labour that is still needed is done by the people who benefit from it, or outsourced to service workers? How does the development of these appliances imply the transition to a services economy?