An unemployed person walking the streets is worth nothing, but one locked up is worth sixty thousand dollars a year in America to the companies running our penal system. The simple truth is the the majority of the world's population has outlived there usefulness to industrialists. Here is what your competition offers them. Computers work for electricity, parts, and the salaries of the highly skilled professionals that operate, or interface with them. They run twenty-four hours a day, and can make calculations and logic decisions at millions of times the rate of speed of the human mind.
Machines never make mistakes, if programmed correctly.
They don't form unions, complain, or demand benefits. If this wasn't enough, they have on-site doctors that heal them when they get sick on the job. The industrial age is over. We have already entered the Age of machines. Let's be realistic.