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The world isn't full of Dell Computers. This year's tomatoes are grown based on last year's demand or this year's demand for out-of-season import tomatoes. There's a time delay and someone gets stuck with the risk, belly-up if demand collapses.

If automation beyond a point actually decreases demand for the outputs, then its self-limiting.

Yes, but it will grow and then self-limit into an equilibrium state where humanity has a much lower real standard of living because it can't "earn" the output it's easily capable of producing.



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