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If you ever want to see a real monument to automation, visit a telco central office in a major city (if you've got a friend that can take you). Many old telco buildings have floors upon floors of space where operators used to sit that just collect dust now. I can imagine folks in the 50s-60s at the advent of direct dial saying similar things to what's already been said here: "But what if the person doesn't know the phone number? But what if a person isn't able to dial a number?" etc., the response was "You'll deal." And we did. As mentioned above, people can and historically have been trained to align their expectations with what's able to be automated. silence_kit posted:It's actually way cheaper to automate semi-skilled white collar jobs where the only inputs and outputs are information than it is to automate some blue-collar work where complicated, costly, high-maintenance mechanical contraptions are needed to do certain types of assembly. This is pretty true, too. We're *very* close to completely automating the analyst level of digital marketing positions, for example.
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That's why it's every patriotic American's duty to monkeywrench, steal time, and generally be as inefficient as possible.
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