When hand-held power tools became a thing, the Hollywood set builder’s union was afraid of this exact same thing - people would be replaced by the tools.
Instead, productions built bigger sets (the ceiling was raised) and smaller productions could get in on things (the floor was lowered).
I always took that to mean “people aren’t going to spend less to do the job - they’ll just do a bigger job.”
When hand-held power tools became a thing, the Hollywood set builder’s union was afraid of this exact same thing - people would be replaced by the tools.
Instead, productions built bigger sets (the ceiling was raised) and smaller productions could get in on things (the floor was lowered).
I always took that to mean “people aren’t going to spend less to do the job - they’ll just do a bigger job.”