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noduerme • today at 11:43 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I thought this article was a parody for the first few paragraphs... that's how times have changed, I guess.

I couldn't agree with the guy more, when he says:

>> when workers have more money, businesses have more customers—and need more employees

But that seems to be exactly the sane logic that old Jeff Bezos is spending his life and his billions trying to find a hack around. I'm still not clear who Amazon's customers will be if everyone's unemployed and AI and robots have taken all the middle class jobs... oppressive governments, I guess.

Great piece, and thanks for posting it.


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cowlevel • today at 11:54 AM

Any individual business has contrary incentives to society as a whole. This is called a race to the bottom.

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