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<blockquote data-quote="VWBobby" data-source="post: 7126103" data-attributes="member: 624844">This one part I do want to address...I don&#039;t know how I can make it more clear.&nbsp; Hire 500 people, it makes it in the news because you are a &quot;major employer&quot;.&nbsp; See: Intel, ShinEtsu, etc.Fire 800 people by the next year.&nbsp;&nbsp; It happens all the time.[quoteMy point is simple, yes automation in the short term takes away more jobs than it creates, but in the long term its beneficial to society due to lower costing products (and not just &#039;cheap junk&#039; you say people fill their houses with).Ok, lower costs benefit who?&nbsp; The person who&#039;s buying, right?&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t benefit anyone but that person.&nbsp; Cheap junk would be anything that is inferior quality, with a low price, that doesn&#039;t last a long time.&nbsp; That would be 99% of consumer products these days. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif&nbsp; See: Best Buy, Fry&#039;s Electronics, etc. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VWBobby, post: 7126103, member: 624844"] This one part I do want to address... I don't know how I can make it more clear. Hire 500 people, it makes it in the news because you are a "major employer". See: Intel, ShinEtsu, etc. Fire 800 people by the next year. It happens all the time. [quote My point is simple, yes automation in the short term takes away more jobs than it creates, but in the long term its beneficial to society due to lower costing products (and not just 'cheap junk' you say people fill their houses with). Ok, lower costs benefit who? The person who's buying, right? It doesn't benefit anyone but that person. Cheap junk would be anything that is inferior quality, with a low price, that doesn't last a long time. That would be 99% of consumer products these days. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] See: Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, etc. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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