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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by PeterisP on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:46AM (#18193007)
On a large scale, there's no meaningful difference between augmenting or replacing a job.

If an industry augments a function employing 100000 people so that every person can do twice as much, then that has the exact same effect as fully replacing a function that employed 50000 people; in both cases they need 50000 people less and they should do something else.

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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by mmcconnell1618 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:52PM (#18196075)
Augmentation increases productivity and as long as the organization has demand for their goods or services, they will keep the more productive employees to serve demand.

Demand is the key to the whole equation. No demand, no employees, automated or human.

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