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Old 08-25-2017, 10:53 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Paul, calm down.

They've been telling us that computers will killing jobs for decades now. Instead, the direct opposite has been happening. We still need office workers and accountants, but now we also need IT people, computer salespeople, web designers, and people to design the computers themselves. Instead of replacing employees, it's made workers quicker and better.

It will be the same thing when robots start replacing us. Eventually fast food workers will be replaced by robots. However, we'll need someone to design the robots, sell the robots, install the robots, and the fix the robots. We'll have less fast food employees, but we'll have millions of people working in a brand new industry.
Computers v Automation. Two entirely different things. Good luck people serving in MacDees designing a robot. Machines that need millions to maintain them won't be much uses.
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