It is not cost of labor as much as new tax law encourages this automation. Companies get to write off these capital expenses rather than amortorize them. As long as they had to depreciate capital assets, it was not justifiable to incur the expense. Now they can take the full amount off income, with carry forward and carry back.

Wow. I am happy to learn that. Thanks. I had given up on it ever happening at about civ III. And just never thought to look.

Civilization

AA only has about a three percent chance of success and it sets you up to relapse with a binge making much more likely to die than other methods. For me Rational Recovery worked. Said I am not sick just not taking personal responsibility. For a more in depth debunktion of AA see the Orange Papers http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters290.html#iamnotastatistic http://www.orange-papers.org/