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Unemployment was high and low in the past no matter the state of automation.
But with automation the money you do earn will buy you so much more.
It is not really about training either. A guy with bulldozer and a few days of training can do the job of a hundred men with showels. It just enables us to do so much more, for basicly the same cost in salaries (and a much higher cost in tools, but those are investments that can be written off with proper economics).
In effect, so much more gets done overall that even if you only participate a little bit, it will (should?) in fact get you more than anyone in the past could dream of as a common worker.
Automation is not the problem.
I'd say the inequality in distribution of the profits of automation is. It's hardly linear to the importance of the work done.
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