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Re:The rise of robots in the German labour market by avar on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:58PM (#15333569)
Men are also inferior to machines when it comes to farm work, but judging from your comment you'd presumably like to go back to the good old days when over 50% of the population worked on farms.
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Re:The rise of robots in the German labour market by richthegeek on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:25PM (#15333814)
Or the really good old days when 97% worked in agriculture...
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Re:The rise of robots in the German labour market by usrusr on Monday September 25, 2017 @06:32PM (#15334718)
Only in times of peace.

(To nitpick on myself, it could be argued that war campaigns were also mostly agricultural work: they were just harvesting other people's fields)

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Re:The rise of robots in the German labour market by wiz21c on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:49AM (#15345435)
No. My problem is not automation/mechanization, I'm all for that. My point is that, if we mechanizes, who pays the bill for lost/relocated jobs ?
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Re:The rise of robots in the German labour market by paulddraper on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:37PM (#15335293)
US agricultural jobs dropped from 70% to 20% in eighty years.

50% of careers gone within one lifetime. And the US did better then ever.

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