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Yeah, but it wasn't robots that got us here, it was rather more mundane - union busting, offshoring and outsourcing.
Robots are a rather convenient scapegoat though.
The financial crisis was simply symptomatic of that (middle class households were forced to swap rising incomes for more and more debt).
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Yeah, but it wasn't robots that got us here, it was rather more mundane - union busting, offshoring and outsourcing.
Robots are a rather convenient scapegoat though.
The financial crisis was simply symptomatic of that (middle class households were forced to swap rising incomes for more and more debt).