Musings about Autofac by Philip K. Dick

Autofac is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. I won&rsquo;t&#xA;spoil the plot for you, but the premise is that humanity, at the beginning of&#xA;a war, has set up automatic and self-sufficient factories to continue industrial&#xA;production autonomously. Now the war has ended, but the factories won&rsquo;t stop&#xA;producing goods, and they are consuming all of Earth&rsquo;s…