Quantum Windbag
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I think the curbing hiring argument might not apply to minimum wage earners. When one thinks about curbing hiring it usually refers to more median range salaries.
I think you forget that it is easier, and less expensive, to hire one man at a decent salary to maintain robots to do the menial tasks than it is to hire 10 minimum wage workers. Even the post office is switching to robots rather than hire people to do the scut work. Keep kicking up the minimum wage and you might even price that maintenance guy out of a job.
Relatively, there are very few jobs that robots can do in lace of human beings. And where they can be used, robots aren't always as economical as one might think. In a sense a microwave oven is a robot which take the place of a human heating food with fire. I just threw out a microwave last month. Bought a new one. $60 (and that was one of the cheaper ones).
I suggest you take a look around the real world.
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