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Every improvement in machinery throws workers out of work and brings want and crime

Drawn from what Friedrich Engels said

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AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

What Friedrich Engels actually said

  1. Friedrich Engels German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895)
    Every improvement in machinery throws workers out of employment, and the greater the advance, the more numerous the unemployed; each great improvement produces, therefore, upon a number of workers the effect of a commercial crisis, creates want, wretchedness, and crime.

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