Libertarian: Bernie Befuddled on Amazon

“Bernie Sanders thinks that Amazon warehouse jobs are soul-crushing, backbreaking, and exploitative,” but “is steadfastly opposed to any automation that would eliminate these undesirable positions,” marvels Reason’s Christian Britschgi .

Flagging a New York Times story on Amazon’s plans to automate up to 75% of jobs in its fulfillment centers, Sanders tweeted, “AI & robotics must benefit workers, not the top 1%.”

Says Britschgi: “One could argue that” this “is just such an example of robotics and AI benefiting workers,” since it would enable “warehouse workers to transition to less strenuous work in other sectors.”

“Indeed, one can credit the general, slow, steady substitution of labor with capital for automating away countless numbers of dang

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