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Consumers would otherwise have had to pay some other amount for their unemployment, poverty, and reliance on handouts.

Laying all of them off also has costs, both financial and human.

If every human being was replaced by a robot, the cost savings to consumers would be enormous. There would also not be any consumers, as nobody would have money to spend.




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