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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: People Should Be “Excited” to Lose Their Jobs and Be Replaced by Robots

Somewhere out there is a bot that can replace Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. It needn’t be very bright. It doesn’t have to be any smarter than the bots that post, “How you can make a trillion dollars working from home” in the comments.

And that would still make it too intelligence. But once we replace Cortez with a bot, we’ll see how excited she is.

New York congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that people should welcome robots taking their jobs — but not the economic system that can make it financially devastating. During a talk at SXSW, an audience member asked Ocasio-Cortez about the threat of automated labor. “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work,” she said in response. “We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.”

A huge chunk of the Dem base in New York doesn’t have a job. They’re doing just fine sponging off those who do.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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