Very well put. A common pushback I get when discussing ideas for software solutions is "wouldn't this put people out of work?" and I think the answer is often "

Very well put. A common pushback I get when discussing ideas for software solutions is "wouldn't this put people out of work?" and I think the answer is often "yes, but it would employ more, more productively". I think the best evidence of this is that we constantly do it to ourselves with open source and other tools (like fairly cheap and easy to use SaaS tools), to great success. There are probably diminishing returns to this over time, but it doesn't seem to me that we've hit them yet.