How are people supposed to make money when we have machines producing all these goods! Maybe your post was sarcasm though :) That's the economic progress of h

How are people supposed to make money when we have machines producing all these goods! Maybe your post was sarcasm though :) That's the economic progress of humanity. We automate, and jobs that were once valued are no longer needed. Easy to look at a specific instance and fight against the change, but in the long run it's better for everybody. Glasses/Vision in particular costs hundreds more than it needs to. Glasses could be produced and sold at $10-20 bucks if regulations were eased. What is the material cost to produce these? You can get reading glasses in grocery stores for a few dollars. I'm fairly well off and even I feel bad paying over a hundred dollars for some of this stuff. Imagine all the lower earners/poor that pay hundreds of dollars for glasses for no reason other than protectionism. The entire eye exam can be automated very easily (and I believe already has). Would be easy to have machine learning algorithms that can diagnose problems from the image of your retina scan. I really don't think it'd be that difficult, if it doesn't exist already.