"AMONG THE MOST viable of all economic delusions is the belief that machines on net balance create unemployment. ... Whenever there is long-continued mass unemployment, machines get the blame anew....
The belief that machines cause unemployment, when held with any logical consistency, leads to preposterous conclusions. Not only must we be causing unemployment with every technological improvement we make today, but primitive man must have started causing it with the first efforts he made to save himself from needless toil and sweat.
"AMONG THE MOST viable of all economic delusions is the belief that machines on net balance create unemployment. ... Whenever there is long-continued mass unemployment, machines get the blame anew.... The belief that machines cause unemployment, when held with any logical consistency, leads to preposterous conclusions. Not only must we be causing unemployment with every technological improvement we make today, but primitive man must have started causing it with the first efforts he made to save himself from needless toil and sweat.
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