12-28-2016, 05:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-28-2016, 05:35 PM by Eric the Green.)
If automation has collapsed jobs in the USA, it will collapse them in Europe and China too in time. If manufacturing is done by machines, fewer people are needed.
Health care jobs are rising. I suspect it may be because of the American lifestyle and diet. The USA has been on the wrong track for at least 37 years. It's not only automation, but primarily neo-liberalism (libertarian economics, free market fundamentalism, trickle-down, etc.), that is the cause. That allowed for outsourcing and lower wages, it removed anti-trust action. It removed social and economic support from the government. The USA declined on many measures, such as education, life-expectancy, happiness. Neo-liberalism is the reason. Unless it ends, America declines and dies. It's your choice.
American workers cannot survive unless neo-liberalism dies. Its ethic of "my taxes should not go to the lazy (X groups) who don't work" is no longer workable. People will need the reap the rewards of the machine owners, through government action and support, or the machine owners will have no customers.
Trump has chosen to embrace neo-liberalism on steroids. He gets an F.
Health care jobs are rising. I suspect it may be because of the American lifestyle and diet. The USA has been on the wrong track for at least 37 years. It's not only automation, but primarily neo-liberalism (libertarian economics, free market fundamentalism, trickle-down, etc.), that is the cause. That allowed for outsourcing and lower wages, it removed anti-trust action. It removed social and economic support from the government. The USA declined on many measures, such as education, life-expectancy, happiness. Neo-liberalism is the reason. Unless it ends, America declines and dies. It's your choice.
American workers cannot survive unless neo-liberalism dies. Its ethic of "my taxes should not go to the lazy (X groups) who don't work" is no longer workable. People will need the reap the rewards of the machine owners, through government action and support, or the machine owners will have no customers.
Trump has chosen to embrace neo-liberalism on steroids. He gets an F.