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by michael_h 2839 days ago
If the Amazon warehouses become fully automated and a big group of people lose their jobs and there's no safety net, the warehouses will be burned to the ground within 24 hours.
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Well, that'll certainly solve the problem of housing and feeding those people.
It definitely won't of course, and I'm not saying it's right, but people who think that a mass people-to-automaton transition is going to go smoothly without a plan in place for the 'people' may lack perspective.
Sure it will - they’ll sleep and eat in prison.