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lxm on Aug 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The rich are hoarding economic growth

And yet ATMs, self-checkout lines and online shopping are a thing, and so are bank branch closures, retail bankruptcies and mall vacancy rates.

chillwaves on Aug 21, 2017 [–]

That is efficiency. We won't pay people to dig ditches when we have machines to do it. Efficiency is not the enemy, resource distribution is.

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