“the New Deal made IBM. All those machines in warehouses were suddenly in demand - not just by the government but by every company in the country required to maitain the records of millions of workers and calculate how much of every employee's hourly and weekly earnings should be paid into the Social Security fund that began operating in 1935. Not surprisingly, Watson told his son that "the average businessman's opinion on what is right and wrong for this country is almost always wrong."”
