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There is a huge amount of pending work in health research that is nowadays ignored because smart people have better paying jobs available.

Once many of those jobs get automated, I bet there will be many more people working in health research, which hopefully should lead to better health outcomes for society as a whole.

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So when our lives will become so much emptier because we are leaving all intellectual and physical work to machines, at least on the way there we can reallocate all our greatest minds to improve healthcare, so we can turn 200 in our paradise where we don’t need to work or think?

This is true, and it's strange that people don't think much about the fact that approximately zero % of people on planet earth are actually trying to cure diseases.

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