This whole process has been brilliantly successful in reducing the
need for human labor on the farm.
In an increasing number of industries, companies can substitute
technology for human labor when wages rise too fast and avoid raising prices.
If we are committed to increased production, we must accept the process of substituting fossil
fuels for human labor.
Electronic markets also reduce the
need for human labor, undermining the requirements for individual desktop software, terminals, and other graphical - user - interface products.
It favors agribusiness that substitutes machinery and
oil for human labor, and monoculture for the varied production of family farms.
Indeed, much of Silicon Valley is building technologies that will most certainly displace the
need for human labor.
Meanwhile population continues to grow and technological developments are reducing the need
for human labor.
For all our human labors, the crown for which we run the race is one we can not confer at will.
The story of farming in the last century includes many examples of automated machinery boosting agricultural productivity and reducing the need
for human labor.