09-23-2018, 09:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-23-2018, 09:33 AM by David Horn.)
(09-22-2018, 09:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I'd say jobs that left here and went to Mexico and China and other places had more to do with that than the machines.
That's true in the past, less true today, and meaningless in the future. Based on industry projections, one half of all jobs will disappear in the next 8 years due to automation. These true believers in the private sector assume that those jobs will be replace with newer better jobs, though they can't say what those jobs will be and what they will pay. But they know that the future is bright and wonderful. Yeah, sure. They once believed that moving jobs overseas would create more and better jobs here too, and you see how that worked.
We are looking into the abyss, and refuse to accept it at our own peril. Eight years is a very short time.
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