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Good post. A lot of the robots-are-taking-all-the-jobs thinking ignores the reality of how hard automation usually is in a real-life environment. There is also too little understanding of the point that automation isn't just something that started happening lately; it's been going on for a long, long time...and today's and tomorrow's labor-productivity improvements are a continuation of a long-running process, not a sharp upward break. See my post series (3 parts) Attack of the Job-Killing Robots:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/54252.html

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