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		pavel_lishin on April 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to get a job at a startup if you aren’t a deve... > If AI becomes capable of automating such tasks, their job may become obsolete. And factory automation and robotics have eliminated the needs for workers, yup.

gersh on April 20, 2011 [–]

The workers need to be able to automate stuff or manage people, who do. Many high-paid, unskilled factory jobs have disappeared. The jobs are doing things that can't be easily automated. The more automatable the lower the pay.

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