Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars. When Bezos replaces everyone with robots, who will be left to buy his junk?
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All those jobs in Detroit that went away were replaced by…? As best I can tell they were replaced by poverty and crime.
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We've been at it for more than a century now and it seems to be working pretty well for nearly everyone!
Our goal is not to preserve jobs. Our goal is to be more productive for fewer resources.
Jobs in Detroit went away - but so did the people, who found new jobs in other cities. There has been no lasting unemployment from automation, ever.
Human beings are good for more than pulling levers and carrying heavy objects and we do each other a disservice by pretending otherwise.
Do you have some citations? There’s absolutely no indication they “found new jobs in other cities” but there is plenty of proof they just never found another well paying job and moved into welfare or became homeless.
That would not be the case if they "moved into welfare" or became homeless.
You seem to have the idea that welfare systems in US cities can handle 40% of the city becoming jobless. I assure you this is not the case.
Unless you're trying to convince me that several hundred thousand people just died, they very obviously moved out.
I can't prove that Detroiters specifically all found better paying jobs, but there is ample evidence online that shows that the real factor crushing the middle class is the sheer number of Americans being catapulted upwards.