Zambezi
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Automation has it's place for sure. But not in all places. Take supermarket checkouts... not only are cashiers put out of work but the supermarkets now transfer legal liability onto the shopper. When you had a cashier you put your goods on the conveyor and paid the person. If they didn't scan something it was the supermarket that was to blame. Or if they scanned a red onion as a cheaper white onion the same applied.The point isn’t determining how to slice up the pie, it’s how to make the pie bigger. Technological advances improve human productivity freeing humans up to perform higher value tasks. Your argument would have kept us at 40 acres and a mule.
Now with self-service checkouts any of the above scenarios YOU can be arrested for theft/shoplifting. Plus the cashier is out of a job.
So no, automation is not always the be all and end all of progress.