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Rh simplest, and the product of the best from a practical point of view. What sort of worker do you think is the best from a practical point of view?

What?

What sort of worker do you think is the best from a practical point of view?

Perhaps the one who is most honest and hard working.

No; the one that is the cheapest. The one whose requirements are the smallest. Young Rossum invented a worker with the minimum amount of requirements. He had to simplify him. He rejected everything that did not contribute directly to the progress of work—everything that makes man more expensive. In fact, he rejected man and made the Robot. My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are, they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul.