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by lotsofcows 4627 days ago
Probably. Then what will happen to these workers?
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They will throw their sabots into the machine and cry 'liberté, egalité, fraternité!'

I don't claim to have any answers, but looking at western history you start to see some similarities.

There's a big difference from western history - in western history, the machines were right next to them; however, if for example a Bangladesh worker is replaced by a sewing robot located in Taiwan, then there's nothing the working class can do about that, and there's no chance that any benefits will trickle down to them as the new profits and rich class are located elsewhere and won't even hire them as servants.

The future will not be evenly distributed, that's for sure.