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Ivanka Trump and Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple recently urged workers who are unhappy with their jobs or unemployed due to the current state of affairs to “find something new”. Their website links to IT training services, apprenticeships, vocational training and online was plenty of backlash after this announcement, with some calling it “tone deaf” and comparing it to the phrase “let them eat cake” or even better, “let them eat code”. Link to “Rise of the Robots“ (affiliate link): We’ll tackle the ethics of automation from 5 angles. The first is the ethics of unemployment. Tedious, repetitive manual labor is being taken over by machines. What’s going to happen when every sector of the economy is taken over by robots and automation? There’s an incredible book called Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford. The author believes that complete automation is inevitable, and it will be beneficial
