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Re:Ask HN: Is it morally right to automate jobs people want? by Karishma1234 on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:03PM (#16945374)
Does not matter. Will poor people be way better off with $1 per test ? They surely will.

Don't just think in terms of existing tests being cheaper, significantly lower price mean people might to do often, there might be automated testing machines installed everywhere which might detect many diseases way quicker and in early stage saving thousands of lives and much better medical research.

Re:Ask HN: Is it morally right to automate jobs people want? by slededit on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:42PM (#16948934)
They would, but the point is that in the existing system the patient will never see the savings. An aspirin tablet is under a dollar at the drug store and $100 in the hospital right now, what makes you think it would change if it got cheaper by a factor of ten?
Re:Ask HN: Is it morally right to automate jobs people want? by Karishma1234 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:24PM (#16973807)
Here is a question. Do you think Americans in 2018 are able to afford more complicated surgeries than 90s ? Increase that by factor of 10 if automation can reduce costs of various medical processes.