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461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse

Freakonomics Radio

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The U.S. Is a Good Place to Start a Robotic Industry

Karen eggleston is an economist at stanford. Her research looks at health care and technology in asia. The countries with a lot of robots tend to be high wage countries, which make sense since higher wages create more incentives to replace human workers. When it comes to japan, karen eggleston says that robots have been embraced for several reasons. Most of those are industrial robots used in the production of automobiles and electronics....

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