In Recent Years,garbage Collection Has Changed Dramatically

question 96

Multiple Choice

In recent years,garbage collection has changed dramatically.Twenty-five years ago a crew of up to 4 or 5 workers and 1 truck collected residential garbage.Now collection is often done by one driver and 1 more fully automated truck.What is an explanation for this change?

• A)Over long periods of time,labour is always replaced by capital.
• B)Over long periods of time,capital is always replaced by labour.
• C)Firms and municipalities substituted away from an increasingly expensive factor (labour)and toward an increasingly inexpensive factor (capital).
• D)Firms and municipalities substituted away from a factor whose price was falling (labour)and toward a factor whose price was rising(capital).
• E)The marginal product of labour was falling over time while the marginal product of capital was rising.

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