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"Automation eliminates jobs" comes from people misreading studies on computer manufacturing. One manufacturing employee produces much more computer than they did in 1970 - does this mean the other workers were automated away? No, it means computers got thousands of times cheaper for the same product.

The US employment rate is the highest it's been in 50 years.



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