Self-checkout will free up cashiers to focus on high-quality customer service!

There we go. Except, all business owners, private or public, will tell you that this isn't the case. :)

Something like this:

same..

> nurse is able to oversee and accomplish more

.. and work with more patients in the same shift.

> She can spend more time talking with patients

.. we mean the talking will be through the "ClaudeMedTalker Nurse" billed per patient, per second (depending upon tokens used and if any translation need, depending upon patient nationality and accents)

> but then the added productivity is used to justify fewer on-staff nurses

Lower staffing levels per unit of care performed makes medical care cheaper for patients. If the goal of a healthcare system is to make healthcare more accessible (rather than be a jobs program), that's a success.

how come productivity increase actually led to increase in quality in almost all cases?

internet/digitasion for doctors for example.

Except, so far, this isn't actually what happens. I listened to Moody's "Inside Economics" podcast with Ramp's Chief Economist, and they observe that companies who adopt AI intensively actually hire 10% more people. Also, this article from The Economist suggests that evidence is mixed-to-positive for long term employment, while short term data center buildout is extremely positive for jobs. Paywalled unfortunately.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/04/t...

>Except what actually happens is that the patient contact time stays the same, but then the added productivity is used to justify fewer on-staff nurses.

They'll fire the janitor and the secretary and make the nurses do that stuff too because "muh regulatory required staffing levels".

that didn't happen with self-checkout tills in supermakets...