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Who Will Buy What the Robots Make?
Original: Who Exactly Is Going to Buy What the Robots Make?
Commentary is questioning the economics of automation: if robots and AI increasingly produce goods and services while displacing workers, who will have the income to buy those products? The argument challenges the assumption that automation automatically creates prosperity, pointing to a looming demand problem if wages and jobs shrink while output grows.
Why now: Rapid advances in robotics and AI are renewing debate over whether automation undermines the consumer demand it depends on.
Evidence
- Who Exactly Is Going to Buy What the Robots Make? · The Good Men Project
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