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• rglover 6y ago
  It's a joke now but there is going to be a sizable amount of property damage to these things once this shift occurs.
  • ddevault 6y ago
    Only if we can't shift society to accomodate the changing job market and take care of people who have been made obsolete. Ideally by enjoying the fruits of our collective labor and ditching the "everyone must spend more than half their lives working" obsession. Call your senator before it's your head on the guillotine, rich HN readers.
    • imtringued 6y ago
      Actually, that's not how it works. Consumer inflation is the go to mechanism for keeping unemployment low. It will keep working even with automation. The government merely has to enact effective policies that keep consumer inflation on track. There is no meaningful distinction between robots and foreign labor when it comes to low employment rates. Both are "not Americans" if your definition of Americans only includes humans that are citizens of the US. Any inequality that would be caused by robots already exists in the form of inequality caused by globalization. You can solve inequality quite easily with the right policies. Change tax policy for the wealthy or create demand for labor through economic stimulus.