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Is Automation a Good Thing to Address Labor Shortages?

The funding was being used deliberately in many cases to promote large scale corporate agriculture, and that was an explicit purpose. So he was trying to show that what automation was in this case was not sort of science making a world more prosperous for everybody. But instead, it was this sort of way for big agriculture to grab market share such that everybody but them loses.

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