Do we need chain restaurants and big box retailers and corporate healthcare systems? Again…I don’t know.
But I know we don’t need them more than we need locally-owned businesses and rural hospitals that curate their care to their patients rather than an algorithm or an ever-increasing ROI.
So, yeah, let the robots starve.
Adam Tidrow is a serial entrepreneur, expert in American business and economic history, and scholar whose work focuses primarily on local economic development in the American Rust Belt. His newest project, Let The Robots Starve, is an advocacy movement aimed at restoring the soul of locally-owned businesses that serve local communities. He is currently performing research for his forthcoming book, Baptism By Fire.
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