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by exhilaration 1635 days ago
Isn't that the the end goal of technology? Those of us working in the technology field have had a hand in replacing labor since the first guy that figured out how to connect a plow to an ox.

Our hope, at least mine, is that we remove drudgery and difficulty from people's lives and create new jobs to replace the ones that are lost.

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I think he is saying that it became 1 jobs from 8 jobs, which is the opposite of creating jobs. Now those 7 people are out of their jobs.