The major incentive that drove captains of industry to invent machines was
a. lucrative government grants that were offered to would-be inventors.
b. a chance to strike it rich via technological innovation.
c. that machines would enable them to replace expensive skilled workers with cheap unskilled workers.
d. that machines could do the work five times faster than humans did.
e. None of these choices are correct.
c
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