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Comment by astrange

7 days ago

> Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3

That is a productivity improvement, which tends to increase employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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