>>That nasty greedy free market has worked its magic since 2012 by giving consumers more choices and much lower prices.
Adam Smith would be proud.
Computer guidance exerts its influence same as the PBX altered the telephonist role. The only people who resist the benefits of automation, are software developers who insist that they are artisan craftsmen. ;-) The greedy free market tolerates both (for now.'-) )
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
