Automation is reducing human wages; Messrs Acemoglu and Restrepo reckon that one additional industrial robot per thousand workers reduces wages across the economy by 0.5%.

自动化正在导致人类的工资下降。阿西莫格鲁和雷斯特雷珀认为，每千名工人配备的工业机器人每增加一台，整个经济的工资便下降0。5%。