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Automation (at the moment) requires a skilled workforce to e.g. build or program the automated system.

• redwood 11y ago
  Orders of magnitude fewer workers though...
  • JupiterMoon 11y ago
    But far higher paid. And therefore the few good industrial jobs building and running the automated systems should be able to support a large number of service jobs in the wider economy.
    • redwood 11y ago
      Except not if the service jobs are all being automated.