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It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Automation has always been about de-skilling to cheaper, more abuse-able labour, and not about actually eliminating work. This goes all the way back to the broad looms and the luddites. There were still loom workers in the new factories - its just that they were children who could be worked to death for pennies.

[โ€“] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago

Well, automation under our current system, yes.