Transitioning to a world in which different skills are valued might be difficult, but in the long run, everybody benefits.
Automation has become somewhat of a dirty word recently. Fear of mass unemployment and widening inequality has led to calls for greater regulations of technology companies, expanded programs of redistribution, and even a “ robot tax ” to discourage adoption of labor-saving technologies. These fears, however, focus too much on the short-term disruption that creative destruction brings, ignoring the long-term opportunities for human advancement that comes along with it.
Throughout history, technologies that automate labor have been crucial to emancipating people […]
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