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Historically, when a new technology enables workers to be more productive the baseline expectation goes up. We don't get time back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin
>This inadvertently led to an increase in the use of slaves. Whitney had hoped his invention would do the opposite by reducing the amount of labor needed to process cotton, but he never invented a machine to harvest cotton. That job still had to be done by hand. Cotton harvesting machines did not show up until the 1930s. So as cotton farmers expanded their plantations, they bought more slaves to pick the cotton.