> > that means that many companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services and make more things that will enrich peoples' lives. > This has

> > that means that many companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services and make more things that will enrich peoples' lives. > This has been the promise over and over again, for centuries, and it has consistently not paid off. Where's the predicted society where automation allows us all to work for two hours a day, and spend the rest at leisure? Is the promise you're referring to that work will be so valuable that people need only work less than a quarter as much to live a material lifestyle equivalent to CE 1823 or 1923, or that there will be so much work to be done that there's no unemployment to speak of in 2023? Both of those seem to be true...