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If the new tech is a robot that cleans your toilet, costs can come down until nobody ever has to manually clean a toilet again.

If the new tech is an on-demand market that hires a person to clean your toilet, the amount of manual toilet cleaning in the world is unchanged :)

Instead of working for a unionized cleaning company with a minimum wage, you too can be your own employer in the new app economy of toilet cleaning to order and be paid less, expected to buy your own equipment, and denied sick pay and holidays. But still subject to sacking if you don't put in 12-hour days, or get a sub-four-star review.

Actually often military first, then privileged individuals!

Part of the reason is that new tech is always expensive and unreliable, so only the privileged individuals have money to burn on costly and risky experiments.

Per Gibson - The Future is here, it is just not widely distributed.

Evenly distributed