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November 4th, 2016 | #1 |
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Automation Is a Worse Cause of Factory Job Loss Than Bad Trade Deals
Automation Is a Worse Cause of Factory Job Loss Than Bad Trade Deals
The Presidential race has, thanks to Donald Trump, focused on American unemployment because of excessive immigration and factories offshored to countries with low wages. But that’s not the whole picture by any means because automation is now changing the work universe fundamentally. Robots are getting smarter, faster and cheaper, so naturally business is using more of them to cut costs. The good news is that some manufacturing is moving back to the US to save transportation costs. The bad news is the new factories will need far fewer human workers because robots will be doing a lot of the work. Therefore, if Trump is elected and can improve the inequitable trade deals, the resulting number of jobs returned to America may well be disappointing. Pat Buchanan reported in 2012 that “the United States since 2000 has lost six million manufacturing jobs and 55,000 factories.” So it’s not a figment of Trump’s imagination that government trade deals have failed American workers. As a result of the technological forces reducing jobs, Washington should wake up and reduce immigration accordingly, because. . . Automation makes immigration obsolete.The record immigration that we have now is entirely inappropriate to what America needs. read full article at source: http://www.vdare.com/posts/automatio...ad-trade-deals |
November 4th, 2016 | #2 |
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Even pharmacist are being replaced by automated machines that fill prescriptions now for many drugs. When high paying careers like this become automated we are really fucked.
But the economy is doing great Onigger says. However Donald Trump has pointed out that most of these jobs are part-time, low paying and seasonal work, not full-time career jobs. |
November 12th, 2016 | #3 |
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Except that won't matter b/c there will be so many jobs available in different fields. Construction for infrastructure repairs, energy industry, and factories will combine to provide plenty of work.
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