| Question | In 2010, President Obama said that technological progress kills jobs. Recall that labor-saving technology substitutes for existing labor inputs and reduces the marginal product of labor. Taking the example of an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine), Obama said that the fact that ATMs have replaced tellers pointed to a structural problem in the economy. Is labor-saving technology necessarily a bad thing? |
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| Subject | business-economics |
