I don't think machines are the way at all. The processes involved in making machines are not sustainable, require slaves to dig into the earth to retrieve minerals and result in environmental devastation. The kind of economy we need to foster is an economy based on taking care of the basic needs of human beings, their social, medical, nutritional, psychological needs. When children are damaged early on it's hard to fix the problems when they become adults. We need a society focused on the needs of children and families. Domination is the problem and machines are part of that program because we have to dominate nature, violate nature and people (really a subset of nature), in order to obtain the materials to build them. Hi-tech technology will be our undoing.