> Yet Australia’s unemployment rate is nearly as low as before the pandemic. This is because Australia closed borders and lost 300,000 poorer foreign workers.

> Yet Australia’s unemployment rate is nearly as low as before the pandemic. This is because Australia closed borders and lost 300,000 poorer foreign workers. Which is not great if you care about people globally. If you want to look at automation, skip the SciFi robots and look at Amazon uptake, which seems like it got a jump. I would expect Amazon is more automated than normal stores? Not sure if teaching the population how to work from home is called automation or not. But robots cost a lot more than sick people, so the general premise is correct. Companies won't buy robots because people are getting sick.