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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by newnewpdro on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:02AM (#17390193)
I laughed, but my impression is that due to overpopulation it's incredibly cheap to rent a human for such tasks there. It'd probably take years to spend what the machines cost, and they take space (a premium, see: overpopulation) and require maintenance.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by infinite8s on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:46PM (#17474959)
That's one of the defining characteristics of the third world:

TCO(human labor) << TCO(automated labor)

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