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No. Automation does not increase unemployment. Automation actually increases the quantity and quality of employment.

Frederick Winslow Taylor answered this question in 1911 in his book The Principles of Scientific Management.

"The cheapening of any article in common use almost immediately results in a largely increased demand for that article. The introduction of machinery resulted in making shoes at a fraction of their former labor cost, the demand for shoes has so increased that there are relatively more men working in the shoe industry now than ever before."

The same pattern is repeated again and again in every industry and every continent for the past 100 years. For every low-paying, menial jobs that automation eliminates, it creates one or more higher paying, less menial jobs.

See page 16 of Taylor's book in the Related Link below.

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