Weekend Reads: Automation & Employment Robots have been making factories more efficient for years, but as they improve in ability their presence threatens to distort the economy and boost unemployment. This week Bill Gates suggested taxing the use of robots, to subsidize worker retraining and even slow the machines’ adoption. But he’s not the first to consider how we should deal with an army of automatons in the workplace. Here, we explore the MIT Technology Review archive to investigate the effects of automation on labor. After World War II, productivity—the amount of economic value created per hour of labor—increased […]
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