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A coronavirus recession will mean more robots and fewer jobs
- thefoxsaysfuuuu 7y agoThis feels like nonsense to me. His argument seems to be that automation saves money, and therefore in tighter financial times, businesses are incentivized to leverage it. This take seems to ignore the fact that businesses are always incentivized to save money. The bottleneck to businesses automating everything is not economic conditions. If corporations could cut staff in half via automation, they would have done so already.