Ever since man created machines to multiply his powers of production there has been divided opinion regarding the effects upon employment which follow the adoption of technological improvements. With equal fervor the machine is blamed for unemployment and praised as the agent of our economic supremacy, and while the prophets of calamity see industrial salvation only in their land of Erewhon, Utopians joyfully measure production to infinity.
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