Comment

Representation ID: 11175

Received: 24/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Richard Carter

If we consider the desire within businesses, and some echelons of society, to increase the use of driverless vehicles and supermarkets without staffed checkouts, for example, although such moves should help businesses to become more profitable, they will also dramatically increase unemployment levels, the strain on society and, in all probability, poverty. In a society where finding meaningful employment is already an uphill struggle, where will the people displaced by these trends work? Where will they obtain the finances to allow them to purchase goods or
services from the very businesses that no longer feel there is a need to employ them?