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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

manpower will always cost less than a robot

This is already not true. Automation has massively reduced the labor required in many industries.

Think about how many millions of labor-hours this thing performs during its lifetime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

*note the tractor for scale in the bottom left