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Old 02-16-2013, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Derek69SS View Post
Luddites have been telling us this would happen since the early 1800s... The thing is, someone needs to build and maintain those machines.

While low-paying factory type work might be replaced by machines, higher paying specialized jobs are created, and when machines are doing the work, it no longer makes it cheaper to put the factory in a 3rd world country, halfway around the globe, because the machines cost the same to run here as they do there. (taxes and regulations excluded...)
I agree, but still takes less people to keep the machines runing, then having factory workers who need benefits
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