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by Dylan16807 1423 days ago
We could have had a perfectly good industrial revolution with more mechanical safeguards and less child labor.

If a machine is 20x faster than human labor, and making it safe knocks off 10%, that's fine. And it'll leave you with better employees over time. It's only a problem if you're in a race to the bottom that doesn't care about worker safety.