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My physics teacher in high school used to say inventors are insane. They invest 100x the time to solve a problem then it would take to just do the work. But they are so happy when they can do it in 1/10th the time when they have their new invention.

Meanwhile everyone watches in horror as the inventor spends all that time looking for the solution thinking how insane the inventor is because they could just "do the work already".

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

Hopefully your physics teacher also made a point similar to this: Even if it takes the inventor 10 years to automate something that takes a worker one day to do, it can benefit everyone in the long run if that task is done often and on a large scale.

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