obvious missing piece here is we're not the farrier, we're the horse. horses ended up as glue. ('glue code' pun intended, mostly) ATMs didn't kill the bank bra

obvious missing piece here is we're not the farrier, we're the horse. horses ended up as glue. ('glue code' pun intended, mostly) ATMs didn't kill the bank branch, exactly, but crappy banks have survived competition just by having access to cheap credit + yield Key thinker in this topic w/ Piketty, bc his lens is perfect: when can machines do what people do, economically. He is agnostic to technology in that he doesn't care about computers vs steampunk, and he is open to the market + political dynamics of labor as factors.