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Originally Posted by jwick
And raising minimum wage is only going to compound the problem. We’re slowly pricing ourselves out of reasonable employment. Guess we need socialism so the govm’nt can support everyone.
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Vonnegut wrote about this a while back, wish I could remember the name of the book; but yes, automation is a very real threat. My work place picks machines for the hard work, and humans just to keep them busy. We have a handful of very skilled personnel, and a lot of drones. The trend is accelerating.