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Or they'd buy Software to keep the books and build robots to paint the RVs.

Unskilled labor needs to be cheaper than mechanization or it'll become mechanized labor.

Of course, someone has to babysit the software and fix the broken robots.

(Which is why I don't see automation as a bad thing, even only taking into account the effect on the job pool.)

You are talking about replacing a large number of unskilled labor positions with a small number of skilled positions. I do not see this as avoidable (nor do I believe it should be avoided) but this process is not quick nor is it painless.

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