A machine works much faster than a human being. And it works much harder. In other words, one machine in a given time, say an hour, can do as much work or produce as many goods as ten or twenty or a hundred or even two hundred men in the same time. Obviously, it is better to get work done by machines, and the transfer to the machines of work that had formerly been done by human hands was accordingly going on all over the western world during the last century. Now if one machine can produce as many goods as a hundred men, it is clear that one of two things should happen. Oncontrary machines can’t operate & manage on their own, they need someone to operate them. If task left only on the machines, it will be all messed up. Due to this, machines are often called bad masters. Either man will have to work for a shorter time than he did before machinery was invented to produce the same quantity of goods, or if he continues to work just as hard, the amount of goods produced ought to be immensely increased. In other words, human beings ought to be becoming much lazier or, much richer or both and so in a way they are; but not quite in the way one might have expected.
Vocabulary
Produce—manufacture
Immensely—largely
