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battery_cowboy on March 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What If Andrew Yang Was Right?

What if there aren't enough jobs and they've automated everything they can? What's your answer when a hundred million jobs are gone to robots?

uk_programmer on March 17, 2020 | [–]

They said that computer technology would eliminate boring office jobs back in the 1980s and 1990s (when most unskilled labour was still manual). This didn't happen. In fact 100% the opposite happened.

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