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The Oligarchs may use Artificial Intelligence advances to suppress the wages of American jobs [View all]
The oligarchs already used automation and cheap overseas labor to break down labor's power in America. With the advances in automation, it may not just be that the oligarchs want to replace up to 50% of jobs in America with machines, but that it at the least can be used as a terror threat to suppress the wages of Americans and keep Americans at the mercy of the leash.
Such a threat was already delivered when the idea of a $15 minimum wage was going around California:
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Video showing the advances in computer artificial intelligence that will eventually render many jobs obsolete or at threat of being replaced by computers within the next five years:
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