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  > But this never happens. Why?

If you pay an accountant $500/year to do your taxes but all that work could be automated for almost no cost, would you still pay your accountant $500/year?

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No, because the rest of the world isn't doing that too. But if the WORLD doesn't need everyone to be doing crappy labor, why would we invent work for them to do, instead of just sharing in the new wealth created by our technology.

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