So is it Man over machine or machine over Man? Seem like the real issue lies in the trend toward optimization in every part of the economy, from the small busi

So is it Man over machine or machine over Man? Seem like the real issue lies in the trend toward optimization in every part of the economy, from the small business owner to large corporations etc. Case in point, I worked for a startup in 2008 that had a FT sysadmin and actual rack servers/real hardware etc. Same guys started a new company in 2012, minus a sysadmin and hardware. The ease/price of EC2 just makes too much sense. I saw that happening. One has to be careful to watch the trends and not be on the wrong side of history (like a sysadmin who is not open to cloud and devops at this point). But how are most non-tech savvy employees going to keep up with the times? Most likely they will be outmoded and seen as expendable. My question is how far will that go?