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Eve-3 t1_ixnqjm6 wrote

The fewer people there are the fewer people need jobs. Company x doesn't need to make a billion products if there aren't a billion people any longer. So they close half the plant and need only half the employees and hey guess what that's just how many are available.

The two aren't connected.

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rkhbusa t1_ixpxwyp wrote

If anything it might even work a little in reverse, mass production scales down man hours per part made, the inverse would be true if you go away from mass production.

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