Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs
by oli5679 on Friday August 12, 2016 @05:32PM
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1) 'Quantity demanded' would have been more precise (and more verbose) than 'demand' but you tell exactly the story I was attempting to.
2) I was critiquing the claim that 'automation reduces efficiency', not the claim that there could be distributional issues. You are attacking a straw-man.
"This was no-doubt harmful for many specific farm labourers"
2) I was critiquing the claim that 'automation reduces efficiency', not the claim that there could be distributional issues. You are attacking a straw-man.
"This was no-doubt harmful for many specific farm labourers"