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saleemkarim t1_irtkbnv wrote

Reply to comment by poobearcatbomber in When will average office jobs start disappearing? by pradej

Yeah, I think people underestimate how much corporations focus on the short-term over the long-term.

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Angry_Grandpa_ t1_iru95tj wrote

It's a lot simpler than that. The systems are not ready. If they had a turnkey system that could do it we'd have it.

It will eventually happen. Almost every grocery store has self checkout lanes now. But it took quite awhile. CVS finally got them in the last year.

Ditto for "driverless cars". Elon Musk keeps saying it's this year... eventually he will be right if he says it every year.

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