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We've been replacing factory workers with machines for 250 years. It's made us, including the remaining factory workers, very very rich, compared to where we started.



Productivity has gone up but wages haven't kept up. The owners are rich, sure, but we should be honest about the working class getting the short end of the stick here.


250 years ago people in England, among the richest in the world, lived considerably poorer lives that the worst in the third world today.

GDP per person has, to the extent it's possible to compare, gone up by 30x (3000%) since then.


You're just repeating your point instead of addressing mine.




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