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for factory workers: automated welders, automated spray painting etc.
for farmers: automated harvestors, computer programmed livestock management, Did you know that in the large beef processing companies every cow is monitored from the day of birth to the day of death? They feed the cows according to computerized formulas, the feed is developed using computerized formulas, and what remains of the cow is disposed of by computerized formulas.

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I think you missed the point. What I am saying is that people are not losing their jobs because of technological evolution. Instead, corporations have run to the government to get a cheap source of labor from overseas. It's not a cotton gin putting field laborers out of work, it is government fulfilling the wishes of corporate lobbyists.