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Yes, but that happened over a long time. There was no single day where someone said "ok, you've all been automated, go somewhere else".

It's not a perfect example, I admit. Because not all farmers owned their land, and there were a lot of farm laborers that didn't own capital. But it's a much closer example to what I am talking about. As opposed to factory owners being automated, where none of the workers owns capital, and it's far more unequally distributed.



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