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minus-squareTheMightyCat@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days ago“must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires” It’s hard to disagree with that statement but all this upheaval about “killing jobs” seems really pointless to me. A manual farm has far more employees then one that uses modern machinery, is the economy in decline if the farmer replaces human labor with machines?
minus-squareredsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoThat isn’t where the jobs are being replaced. We made robots for warehouses and accounting and middle management.
minus-squareTheMightyCat@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoWhy does it matter what is replaced? I would say if it frees up a human from having to do it that it’s good news.
“must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires”
It’s hard to disagree with that statement but all this upheaval about “killing jobs” seems really pointless to me.
A manual farm has far more employees then one that uses modern machinery, is the economy in decline if the farmer replaces human labor with machines?
That isn’t where the jobs are being replaced. We made robots for warehouses and accounting and middle management.
Why does it matter what is replaced?
I would say if it frees up a human from having to do it that it’s good news.