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"Economics in One Lesson", chapter 7. Everyone should read that book

http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf




It says that jobs lost because of intoduction of labour saving machine are regained at later time thanks to increased demand caused by more efficient supply.

But what if we reached a point where one labour saving machine is replaced with even better labour saving machine before it had a chance to redeem lost jobs?

I anticipate transition of jobs and money toward trivial things. In 10 years John will cut hair of James for 1000$ and James will groom dog of John for 1000$. In the meantime theyll both enjoy nearly magical devices they bought for 10$ because they were made by robots.




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