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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by runeks on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:39PM (#16119351)
There’s no rule in capitalism about who wins: the consumer decides who wins when she purchases a producer’s product, picked from the store shelf. The producers of the products we purchase are those who survive, because their income is our expenditures (and their expenditures on wages/salaries is our income).

You could argue that we choose wrong when we go shopping, but ultimately we decide which businesses have an income and which don’t.

Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by frgtpsswrdlame on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:44PM (#16119395)
I think you're missing the point a bit. It's not about our choice as consumers so much as it is the inevitable end of capitalism as a way of distributing property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_history#Cap...

Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by manicdee on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:17PM (#16120362)
What choice do you have when there is only one provider?