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Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:53PM (#20664999)
> creating 50 jobs that automate away 1000 jobs is a net loss of 950 jobs

Keeping 950 jobs that are technologically uncompetitive is a good way to create a crisis down the road. Let's not confuse the investment and automation debates.

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