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Automation is a growing part of our society. Technology drives automation - which is supposedly going to make our lives easier over time. Amazon has warehouses full of robots in Southern California. These robots have taken jobs and also created jobs too. No longer are workers breaking their backs lifting packages to ship out goods to customers. These employees who were displaced have now taken on a more intellectually demanding job. The new jobs are to troubleshoot/preventative maintenance on the robots that displaced their physically demanding jobs. Is that such a problem? That seems like a benefit over time -- to better society.
In a short interview conducted by Big Think, journalist and co-founder of Vox Ezra Klein gave his thoughts on the current amount (and rise looking into the future) of robots in our society:
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