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No one is oblivious, you simply fail to understand the nature of automation. Yes, humans will be making those robots better, but it'll only be a handful of hum
by gnaritas 9y ago
No one is oblivious, you simply fail to understand the nature of automation. Yes, humans will be making those robots better, but it'll only be a handful of humans, not the millions displaced by the robots. Everyone displaced by a robot in a blue collar job isn't going to suddenly turn into millions of millions of jobs designing and repairing robots. Repair won't even be a thing, they'll simply be replaced by new robots that were built by other robots. Automation replaces millions of people with robots and a few thousand people. The new jobs created are higher and higher skilled jobs always in lower and lower numbers never enough to cover the jobs displaced by the automation. If automation created as many jobs as it destroyed, it wouldn't be improving efficiency and no one would be doing it. It is precisely because it destroys jobs cumulatively that people automate because that's called efficiency and it creates wealthy for the robot owners by funneling the money that would have went to human salaries to those owners.