OT, but this thread is probably kill-filed by the purists anyway,

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> Martin Luther King mentioned "the Moloch of technology" which
> threatened to automate people away from manufacturing, for service jobs
> with less pay.

FWIW, all this talk about labour-saving technology as threatening is
dependent on a trade-based market economy, which isn't necessarily a
state that humanity will dwell in for all time.

One possible alternative (perhaps complemented by others) is the
emerging idea of commons-based peer-production (a la wikipedia, the srfi
process, and the free software movement).