So the larger truth here is that machines want information to be free. But of course, it wasn’t just printing and information. The industrial revolution was about powered machines enabling people to produce more and more things more quickly and cheaply, over the last two centuries enabling a remarkable, continual increase in prosperity (and, with luck and political will, social progress). So if information wants to be free, that’s just a particular digital-age instance of machines want everything to be free—including the cost of every kind of work. Machines want to do all the jobs.
