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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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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It’s largely based on the “lump of labor” fallacy, that if you get rid of a particular job that the same number of people will be unemployed, as opposed to having alternatives now/eventually become available.

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