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In <3piads$1la@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> c2xrib@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
(rex i beard) writes: 

>Yes, but today and for the foreseeable future we need more than "two
guys
>in a garage" for the computer industry. We *need* all those farmers.
>and we *need* all the people to build cars. *Some* of them can be
replaced
>by mechanization. But I ask you, "Why aren't they replaced right now?
>The answer, It costs *more* to mechanize these jobs than it costs to
>have people doing them. The reason we don't have elevator operators
all
>over is because human beings are valuable and they are better used
some
>place else.

Ummm, actually, the reason that we haven't replaced as many farmers has
to do with politics--not economics, per se.  We have an elaborate
system of government price supports to pay farmers above market price
for food, and in some cases, to pay them to produce nothing at all
(ever hear of "set asides"?)  Some might say that we have been paying
some NASA employees (not necessarily through any fault of their own) to
do the same thing, in the case of station <g>.
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