Amazon Automation has been a buzzword on the tips of many thinker’s tongues for a while now. The media, Silicon Valley and, most earnestly, Andrew Yang, have been warning of an impending crisis of robot-fueled unemployment with increasing alarm. Aaron Benanav has contributed an unorthodox take on this issue in Automation and the Future of Work .
Instead of Automation and the Future of Work , I think Benanav’s book should have been titled, Dreaming of Full Automation and the Present Decline of Work . Benanav points out that global employment has been stagnating since the 1970s. The main driver […]
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