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The pessimistic argument is as follows: If machines costing $5 an hour can produce the same amount as workers costing $10 an hour, employers have an incentive to substitute machines for labor up to the point that the costs are equal – that is, when the wages of the workers have fallen to $5 an hour.

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Worse, some of the suppliers realized that they could substitute a product which mimicked heparin in tests.

This substitute cost nine dollars a pound, whereas real heparin, the real ingredient, cost 900 dollars a pound.

But you see, when you're using a computer, you can just substitute.

Basically, we substitute, in our lives, access to the things we want.

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