Tarsand Drivers To Lose Jobs To Automation

Remington1

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When automation has replaced human, wouldn't it stands true that human's would no longer have jobs to buy all the things which the automated robots are producing? I've never lived on a farm or worked on a farm, so not certain about this one, but I think I might like to buy land to become a farmer.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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When automation has replaced human, wouldn't it stands true that human's would no longer have jobs to buy all the things which the automated robots are producing? I've never lived on a farm or worked on a farm, so not certain about this one, but I think I might like to buy land to become a farmer.
OK, but if you want to be true to your philosophy, you'll till your soil by hand. No tractors, no power cultivators, and for that matter, since you specify the replacement of humans as the evil to be avoided, no animal-drawn plows either.
 

Johnnny

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“That will take 800 people off our site,” Cowan said of the trucks. “At an average (salary) of $200,000 per person, you can see the savings we’re going to get from an operations perspective.”

Holy sh!t

Clearly i should have went to school for truck driving....