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Take a need like transportation in snowy areas.  The Eskimos solved part of the transportation problems that they had
by training sled dogs and making sleds for them to pull.  This was an organic solution to their transportation problem.  
Nobody bribed them to do things that way, they just did it because it was a common sense solution to a problem arising
from a need.

At present, most Eskimos use snowmobiles to solve similar transportation problems.  Again, nobody had to bribe them to
do it, they did it because they could see that it was practical.  Let us compare the capabilities of the sled dog to the
snowmobile.  The organic system requires feeding and rest to recuperate.  The dogs need to be bred, born, raised,
trained and replaced when they die.  Snowmobiles do not have to be bred or trained to do their jobs.  If you have two
drivers for the snowmobile, you can have one drive for 6 hours while the second one sleeps for 6 hours and then switch
drivers.  The snowmobile need not take a rest like the sled dogs must.  Once you have developed an inorganic system
that replaces an organic system, the only use for the organic system is as pets or for racing “like we did in the good old
days.”  Once you have evolved a snowmobile that has fuel injection, you don’t have much trouble starting it.  Remember
how many problems with jump starting automobiles in the winter we had in the 1960s?  Remember how unreliable fuel
injection was when it first came out and took a large PC board to control?  New snowmobiles can go into reverse simply
by electronically changing the timing of the spark and the fuel injection.  This saves about 27 pounds of weight (out of
about 500 pounds) from the old mechanical method of providing reverse.  The snowmobile continues to evolve and has
really replaced the organic system for practical usage.

All I am asking is a simple acknowledgement that the evolution of the machine is replacing one work animal after another
and will eventually replace hamburger flippers and floor sweepers.  Once I have a $30,000 robot that can flip
hamburgers 24 hours per day with just a little maintenance, the human hamburger flipper will be replaced just as
certainly as the sled dog has been replaced.  Once I have trained one human hamburger flipper and it decides to go
back to college, I have to train another hamburger flipper which then decides that it wants to become a manager at Arby’
s.  The next hamburger flipper is chronically late for work and I get tired of managing people.  But once I have trained a
robot hamburger flipper, I can place that training software on a DVD-ROM and load it into the next robotic hamburger
flipper.  Training is minimal.  No health insurance.  No withholding FICA.  No lawsuit if it slips and falls on a wet floor.  If
the interest rate on the money to purchase the robot is 6%, the robot is costing me $1800.00 per year plus
maintenance.  Do you actually seriously think that you can compete with me by own a franchise in which you use human
hamburger flippers rather than robots?  In addition, I will make glass walls so that the kids can line up and watch my
robot (dressed up like some animal cartoon character) flip hamburgers.  Eventually the robot will do the cooking and
then place it in the bun, add condiments, wrap it up, place it in a bag and hand it to the kid.  Your franchise will be out of
business in short order if you run it the old fashioned way.

I am not talking wild and crazy ideas here.  I am simply talking common sense.

Can’t you see the trend?  Do you really want to bet against this trend?