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It's still cheaper to exploit human laborers to pick those simple objects.

There will be a reckoning once capitalism runs out of people to exploit.

How exactly will that happen? Most Western governments are happy to import immigrants after their own populace wakes up to their bullshit and stops tolerating it. Many immigrants don't mind working for 20% of what a local would work.

I don't see us running out of Indians, Chinese and Africans in the next 200 or so years at least.

But you’ll stop being able to afford them a lot sooner

That's very true but the politicians keep pretending that this fact doesn't exist.

> There will be a reckoning once capitalism runs out of people to exploit.

That's just a different way of saying there will never be a reckoning :-/

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