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m00n on Oct 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coders Automating Their Own Job

Why would the robot cost the same? If it costs the same, then there is no incentive to introduce robots in the first place. I think the wide-spread automation is a testament to the much lower price of robots compared to human labour, no?

iaml on Oct 3, 2018 [–]

I mean the guy using robot gardener takes the same pay for the services, not the robot, sorry for confusion.

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