Giant Sucking Sound - HiFi Critics
Amazon just launched their first cashier-free store, which comes on the heels of Tesla’s driverless truck launch late last year. These two events signal the latest step in the free market’s inevitable challenge to society’s norms following automation’s devastation of 5.6 million US manufacturing jobs in the first decade of the 21st century. What is different this time about the Amazon and Tesla announcements, vis-a-vis the impact on society?