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This is KC2PKG and that's okay, it was very interesting. It seemed kind of dark and that's exactly why I asked that question. I want to see if there was a sense of dread out there about it and if anybody wanted to try a creative solution, how are you going to take care of all these people? That's more of where I was going on this. I'm hard up for a Christmas present suggestion from my wife for me and I went back to an old one, the Amazon Astro which originally I didn't get because I just couldn't see it being that useful, just another device that hangs around and does nothing. I went back to it saying, I wonder if it's improved or what they've done. They had an Astro for business and it's being discontinued. I don't know if the Astro for home and it's a little three-wheeled robot with a screen that moves and has periscope with a camera on it so it can see on top of the counter and stuff like that but it didn't fly off the shelves. One because it was $1500 and I guess there just wasn't a lot of interest in it. I was tempted, I was very tempted but it looks like it's getting cancelled. Now maybe there's going to be Astro for the warehouse over at Amazon so we'll see where that's going. D, KM4LBF. Amazon is maybe starting a trend. They're getting rid of 14,000 lower corporate end jobs from their offices and replacing them with AI. What do you think about that and what kinds of things can we do to make that easier on the people? When I was a manager, 80% of the cost of any project was people and we're always trying to do it with less but people are expensive as George pointed out. They go on vacation, they have medical expenses, usually another 30 to 40% on top of their salary is the medical side, the insurance side, that kind of stuff. What can we do about that? What should we be thinking about when AI comes in and all of a sudden a lot of people don't have work anymore? This is KC2PKG and we're going to KN4LBF.
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