> Why isn't the benefit of that efficiency passed on to those employees who are now more efficient? Because any teenager would be more efficient with automated

> Why isn't the benefit of that efficiency passed on to those employees who are now more efficient? Because any teenager would be more efficient with automated inventory control. Teenager X didn't have to learn how to do something more complicated. The labor is interchangeable. It is a victory of capital. Labor specialization and labor skills are what allow labor to collect more of the spoils. Otherwise, labor is interchangeable. The job must need you more than you need the job. Supply and demand. On the computer power point: scaling has changed as Moore's law has died. It takes something more subtle to make modern systems sing. Something inaccessible to most teenagers without both aptitude and training.