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Re:Amazon Go by saint_fiasco on Monday December 05, 2016 @02:30PM (#13108452)
If the only reason those people have jobs is that we feel pity for them and don't want to automate their work, then what they have is not a job. It's just disguised welfare.

Why not just give them actual welfare?

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Re:Amazon Go by preordained on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:01PM (#13108860)
But will we...give them actual welfare, training, some transition? Or are we going to bring in the automation and let nature take its course?
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Re:Amazon Go by saint_fiasco on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:45PM (#13109357)
The parent comment men says they are in Barcelona, so maybe it won't be politically impossible to just give them welfare.

In the US, it might require some doublespeak to keep people from revolting at the "socialist" implications of paying people for not working.

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