这并不一定意味着“低技能”工人的绝对生活水平会下降：让人脑价值下降的因素或许也能同样有效降低生活必需品、改善品和奢侈品的成本。
It is not necessarily the case that “unskilled” workers’ standards of living will fall in absolute terms: the same factors that make human brains less valuable may well be working equally effectively to reduce the costs of life’s necessities, conveniences, and luxuries.