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by Legend2440 996 days ago
"putting people out of work" by automating jobs is also a good thing.

The amount of stuff humans can accomplish is strongly limited by the supply of workers. Automating one job frees them up to do other things.

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> "putting people out of work" by automating jobs is also a good thing

Unless you're one of the people out of work. And even if you don't care anything about them, if there's enough of them then the resulting unrest will be your problem anyway.