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mknod · 3172 days ago · link · · parent · post: What would the short and long term effects of automization/ replacing human low skill workers with robots be?
Historically, and I don't have the book I am reading on this sorry. But automating a task creates more jobs rather than less. Usually the displaced workers are hired into management positions for the company, or are hired to specialize in monitoring equipment. Can you give an example in China or India of a previously unautomatted task becoming automatted and a worker losing their job? I ask not because I am trying to be critical of the argument (I know working conditions there are bad and companies have basically taken to both places as "dumping grounds" for cheap labor) but rather because I am curious of stories.