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hawkwings t1_ivr4q9r wrote

In addition to workers being fired, you also have workers not being hired. Suppose that a company builds a new factory and hires 100 workers, but in the past, they would have hired 300 workers. That's 200 workers being replaced by robots without anyone being fired.

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cutoffs89 t1_ivrh8aa wrote

Exactly what I was thinking. It seems like it would happen first at newly formed competitors that are starting off fresh with robots/automation, instead of simply "replacing" them at existing companies.

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