Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production
by rukittenme on Monday May 08, 2017 @12:27PM
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Everything old is new again. We have thousands of years of documented history describing our ancestors using highly advanced, labor-saving machines -- human beings and animals. I wonder why this situation is any different from the rest of recorded human history.
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Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production
by chroem- on Monday May 08, 2017 @12:47PM
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Because only a select few have access to these new machines, and everyone else is at their mercy. If everyone had the capital to buy their own industrial robots and automation technology, then this would be a non-issue. However the reality is that we have to cross our fingers that the captains of industry will play nice.