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So it's now harder to say with a straight face "we're using robots because it's more ethical than exploiting people". "No, it's just cheaper."

• thehardsphere 10y ago
  It can be both. The fact that we say "it's cheaper" doesn't preclude "it's more ethical" especially when everybody agrees already that the presented alternative isn't ethical. Burning coal to generate electricity is both cheaper and more ethical than burning live toddlers. You don't say "we use coal for electricity instead of toddlers because it's more ethical" because that's self-evident to anybody but a true psychopath.