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skulk • today at 1:45 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> You seem to think raising productivity is a bad thing?

Higher productivity means very little to people whose labor plummets in value over the course of a couple of years. One day they won't be needed anymore, maybe that's good for you.


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eru • today at 2:03 AM

Ever since at least the industrial revolution we had this same song and dance play out again and again. Yet, unemployment rates around the world are the world are fairly steady (and vary mostly in line with how business-friendly local regulations and taxes are, and so far not much with the current state of technology).

I'm a software developer by trade. I welcome the coming brave new world in which machines can do all the software.

At the moment, they ain't quite there yet, alas.