JayDee
You all act like it is a zero sum game. It’s worse than that. Just like Trump Labor Secretary candidate said about robots:
“They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex or race discrimination case,” said Andy Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Inc., in an interview with Business Insider earlier this year. CKE owns, operates and franchises restaurant chains including Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. end quote.
Even Amazon is trying to automate the Stop ‘n’ Shop.
The lost jobs are not like fishes swimming in the sea–they will never be caught again. Most of these jobs are gone: Travel agent, bookseller, realtor, Boeing mechanic (unless he fixes robots gone soon enough), Detroit/midwest auto mechanic. Both Demos and Republicans are facing this same structural shift. Protectionism won’t save jobs, repealing Ex-Im Bank won’t save jobs.
Someday we will need to consider paying people an income (however euphemized) just to maintain a consumer economy because the 1% can only consume so much before the peasants start revolting (meant humorously sort of).
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