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Which is why we should immediately un-mechanize mines and bring back hurriers and trappers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrying

https://thoroglove.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/trappers-hurrier...

Simply put: if a job is so repetitive that it can be automated out of existence, it's in the interest of humanity overall that it should be.

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Seems like it's in the interests of the owners to automate, not in the interests of those who work jobs that will be automated.

No, it seems like it's in everyone's interest. Or would you really prefer to live in the conditions people lived in 200 years ago?

To be honest, everyone would have been better off if coal extraction remained a manual process.

> Simply put: if a job is so repetitive that it can be automated out of existence, it's in the interest of humanity overall that it should be.

Quite a different way of framing it than your original comment. Here you tout how it's good for "humanity" in general. Before you were touting how this is good for the people being put out of work.

Um, the original comment wasn't mine.

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