1 person will do what 10 people used to do.

Published on May 1, 2025 by

Neville Medhora in Essay, Wisdom, Advice, AI and Sketch

Technology keeps reducing the number of people it takes to do things.

Ex 1: Travelling to a different state: In the 1850's you'd have a literal caravan of people, wagons, supplies, and horses to go anywhere. Now you can hop in a car by yourself and go anywhere. 10x to 100x reduction in labor needed.

Ex 2: Making a film someone will see: 30 years ago you'd need crews, directors, film, editors, and distribution. Now a person with an iPhone can access millions of people. A 100x reduction in labor.

Ex 3: Accounting and financial stuff: There used to be rooms full of people doing literal arithmetic and updating a chalkboard that was a "spreadsheet." Now one person can use QuickBooks or a Google Spreadsheet to do complex financial modeling for hundreds of companies at a time. A 100x reduction in labor.

Ex 4: Publishing online It used to take a team of writers and editors and SEO people to get traffic online. Now with 1 person and an AI you can replicate all that work. A 100x reduction in labor.

Every time a new technology marches in, there's some initial resistance as you can see:

However generally it's the people who embrace the technology are on the right side of history (and financial success).

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Text Statistics

Middle School

8th-9th grade level

242

Total Words

Total Sentences

8.0

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Flesch Score

Content Analysis

Technology

Informational

General public, technology enthusiasts

Main Topics

Impact of technology on laborTechnological advancementsEfficiency improvementsResistance to new technology

Key Messages

• Technology reduces labor needs significantly
• Embracing technology leads to success
• Historical resistance to technology is common
• Adoption of technology is beneficial

Copywriting Frameworks

Before/After/Bridge

85%

Each numbered example contrasts the old, labor-intensive ‘Before’ with the new, technology-enabled ‘After,’ then implicitly bridges to the reader by suggesting that embracing new tech is the way forward.

Before: “In the 1850's you'd have a literal caravan of people…”, “30 years ago you'd need crews…”, etc.

After: “Now you can hop in a car by yourself…”, “Now a person with an iPhone can access millions…”, etc.

Bridge (implicit): “However generally it's the people who embrace the technology [who] are on the right side of history (and financial success).”

Problem/Solution

80%

The copy repeatedly sets up the problem of high labor requirements, then presents modern technology as the solution that slashes that labor 10–100×.

Problem: Extensive manpower once needed for travel, filmmaking, accounting, publishing.

Solution: Cars, iPhones, QuickBooks/Google Sheets, AI tools that cut labor dramatically.

PAS (Problem, Agitation, Solution)

70%

Goes a step beyond simple Problem/Solution by emphasizing how extreme and inefficient the old situations were (agitation) before revealing the tech-driven fix.

Problem: “There used to be rooms full of people…”, “You'd need crews, directors, film…”

Agitation: Repetition of “literal,” numbers like “100x reduction,” making inefficiency feel painful.

Solution: Modern single-person tech alternatives in each example.

AIDA

55%

The structure loosely follows Attention → Interest → Desire → Action, though the Action is implied rather than explicit.

Attention: Opening line, “Technology keeps reducing the number of people it takes to do things.”

Interest: Four vivid historical vs. modern comparisons.

Desire: Promise of 10–100× labor reduction and being on the ‘right side of history (and financial success).’

Action: Implied directive to ‘embrace the technology.’

Storytelling structures

60%