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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
What if the machine is made by a machine?
Edit: in any case I highly doubt the machine is made locally
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I'm sure parts of it at least are. We can play this game forever, but at the very least at some point, some humans somewhere are coming up with the idea, engineering it and coming up with the programming. All work created that people care about. There is no sense fighting tooth and nail to protect jobs that become irrelevant simply because they used to exists, because there are other jobs now that never used to exists. Things change.
That's a very, "macro" view point. Not to say real people who either have a passion for a dying job or who's skills and training are on those types of jobs aren't impacted, but what can you do in the long run? As a taxpayer, regardless of the financials, and don't want a single penny more than is necessary than what is required to meet the TRUE demand for postal service of my tax payer dollars to go there, as I know it be better spent elsewhere. And I don't want to see another cent go there simply to support and old and outdated business model for any reason.
And I'd say the same for any money I'd put into a private or publicly traded company.