> so when the labor is free we shouldn’t need them. Short of the singularity happening - "labor" (even Robotic) - at this scale - is not going to be anywhere n

> so when the labor is free we shouldn’t need them. Short of the singularity happening - "labor" (even Robotic) - at this scale - is not going to be anywhere near free. I mean, in some ways, "labor" is already "free" in agriculture if you compare current cost of labor per yield vs what you would get before the industrial revolution. The average labor cost to farm an acre of wheat pre-industrial revolution was 50-100 hours. Today, it's <1. Short of the singularity, we are not getting a 100x improvement from here in our lifetime. There's not only so many 100x improvements you can make until you need a perpetual motion machine traveling faster than light...