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The optimistic "another" way is that anyone whose job is now obsolete finds a new job. Ideally within the same company.

(if you live in places with healthy worker protections, a company can't just fire someone, they need reasonable grounds; bar that, they need to first try and place them somewhere else in the company, and if that doesn't work, firing involves paying a severance fee. In an ideal and morally correct situation anyway, in practice they'll use dodgy corporate structures to bankrupt companies before paying or retraining anyone)

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Assuming the company still gets some value from them. France has good worker protections but you can always just close shop. (And move elsewhere).

Another optimistic look is that there might just be more work, that otherwise would not be done.

For example we always complain about AAA games coming out riddled with bugs, now we have an opportunity to cut a significant portion of that if we also keep the workforce. Same with administrative tasks that take forever because it’s one person filing it for the whole country etc.




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