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Right, but the robots displace jobs to the point where only 1/4 of the amount of people can actually afford to buy your widget, your profit will fall.

(Obviously, if jobs merely shift, as has happened in previous technological disruptions, this scenario isn't a problem.)




Usually there's much much more people buying any given thing than people producing it.




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