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Automation and the Rise of Repression | Adelaide News
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As automation displaces workers and widens inequality, economists warn that governments may turn to repression rather than redistribution — because repression has fixed costs while wealth redistribution escalates with each new wave of automation. This chilling theory, echoing tech leaders’ visions of surveillance-heavy control, suggests democracies could erode under pressure from job loss and social unrest, creating a feedback loop where technology fuels authoritarianism — and we’re already seeing the tools of control being deployed in real time.
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