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    Serious question: what percentage of unemployed people blame a robot (or automation) for taking their job? I don't know any people who think this (even though it's very true, for many.)

    Yang is 10 or 20 years too early. People's sentiments haven't caught up with reality yet.

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    • how many steel workers / assembly types do you know? i could easily see where the fear comes in. these are people that know work as a routinecolin_s
    • and yang isn't early, he's off-base. UBI isn't a terrible idea, but he is. technocratic utopianism is a fucking curse, not a point of salvationcolin_s
    • entrepreneurship / "gods of capital" is so far removed from how a healthy society operates, but he's so wrapped up in the idea he can't see outside itcolin_s
    • I know a lot of people (family, friends) in these types of industry. Upon being laid off, I've never heard one of them blame automation.
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    • It won't be a robot for many, it will mostly be a Plugin that replaces your job .robotron3k
    • The entire physical banking business is almost completely nonexistent. Street level retail is at its last stage before death. Many millions replaced by tech.monospaced
    • My question is: do people who have been replaced by automation actually blame automation for their specific job being taken away? I don't hear that.
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    • I've heard it from people who used to own those businesses, but it was a slow process, not a sudden one. They've moved on.monospaced
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