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If this is to be taken as a sort of prophetic/religious statement that will certainly be believed, how about this:
"It is better to rely on the labour of machines than the labour of beasts, and better to rely on the labour of beasts than the labour of man".
(Based on the idea that historically, technological progress was often disincentivized by the abundance of cheap/slave labour).
That sounds amazingly Wise. I felt a strong impulse to get it done up in elaborate script and framed on my wall (seriously).
What's the next step after "the labo[u]r of machines"?
I Am Not A Mechanism Designer, but perhaps the labor of the "problems" themselves. Something like the self-raising, self-butchering bovine-like animal in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, or an economy that's somehow structured so that the advantages of high-level manipulation of economic value like high frequency trading are already manifested by the implicit financial infrastructure.
I was searching for "We apologize for the inconvenience." I appreciate the way your subjective "better" covers this concept.
edit: After a little reading, I offer a rejoinder: is it better to rely on the labour of intellectual design - of manufactured reactions - than the labour of machines? Or are these two mechanics too similar to parse?