Does Mechanisation and automation actually reduce the number of labourers overall?

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Note that’s based on a study by Mukherjee that is, at best, considered controversial. The conclusion that Churchill’s policies exacerbated the famine is not generally accepted academically except in some circles inside India itself.

Further Note that Churchill is considered a racist killer, in most of former Colonial world - more discussion here

Racial views of Winston Churchill

Previous discussion on Churchill in Straightdope here :

Churchill was a genocidaire

Winston Churchill is still revered as a hero of the Second a World War and one of the saviors of democracy. That’s debatable. He gave a few good speeches and it’s questionable whether those speeches were really necessary for the eventual success of the Allies. What’s not in question is that Churchill was a racist motherfucker who intentially engineered the starvation of possibly over 4 million Bengalis for no other reason than spite. His own people begged him to let the ships at harbor in Calc…

Lets not hijack this thread.