As I drove home from dinner that night, I began think about how that machine replaced at least three parking attendant jobs.

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Logic would tell me that it created fewer jobs than it replaced, otherwise the cost of the machine would exceed the cost of the attendants and not be a good investment for the parking lot owner.

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