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charlize burstein

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Debate: Technology will eliminate the need for human employees, and the unemployment rate will increase.

Technology is an easier and faster way to get a job done. It is obvious that technology increases the profitability of companies throughout the world. So why would I hire a human rather than purchasing the technology when the costs of them are the same?

Discuss the situation where you are going to choose one of them with equal conditions (conditions means the costs and several types of expenses).

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    edward long 100+

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    Nov 30 2012: If empoyees are rendered redundant by self-replicating, self-servicing robotics why would there be such a metric as " Human Unemployment"? My guess is that long before the last human got her pink slip the economy would be terminal. Game over.

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