Further more, the technical efficiency was suppressed by the advantage of resources in this area, strategy of exploring resources incumber the economy in the long run.
Students who can basically test themselves or try to retrieve material from their memory are going to learn that material in the long run a lot better.
Politicians love the idea of Amazon in their city. Once you have Amazon, salaries will go up. Home prices will increase and eventually tax revenues could increase in the long run.
It would still be using people, even where the calculus works out for the best in the long run, it would still be using people as means rather than respecting them as ends in themselves.