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The issue is the one that Andrew Yang built his platform around. If full automation outpaces the rate that people can retrain, you end up with a growing unemployed population. This in turn can drive political change to account for that fact (such as the institution of a UBI system, possibly funded in part by taxes on large automated companies).



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