why are people so against automation in factories if it makes things safer and produces more goods? is it just that people are losing jobs? but there are different jobs that open up.
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Automating a job doesn’t automatically make another job open up.
Automation allows us to produce the same amount of goods with less input (namely labor). This is a good thing overall, but now you have an owner who has more profit now, and a former laborer who is now financially devastated. If we just let the transistion to automation go on like this, it will only create more poverty and unemployment, and all the wealth gained will be concentrated in relatively few people.
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