83% of manufacturing jobs this century have been lost to automation*

[DemocratSinceBirth]

How can imposing tariffs bring those jobs back. Imposing tariffs will only hasten the process.









* Please fact check me. I saw that statistic in passing.

[Cattledog]

1. Automation is even killing low wage jobs in India.

The effect of automation has started reflecting on the operations of IT behemoth Infosys.
The firm has "released" 8,000-9,000 employees in the past one year due to automation of lower-end jobs, its human resources head Krishnamurthy Shankar told The Economic Times.

http://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/infosys-releases-9000-employees-in-the-past-one-year/story/244596.html

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. A lot of people are afraid of automation and rightfully so.

However I think we are smart enough to harness it for the greater good.

[SFnomad]

2. Re: H.L. Mencken

I have always said something that is quite similar to this ... and I didn't realize it was a paraphrase of him. Thank you for enlightening me.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Thus 01 was created

[Wellstone ruled]

5. You know this will never be excepted in

Trump World. Those folks are yearning for the days of Ozzie and Harriet,seems to me Old Ozzie's Job is being replace by Artificial Intelligence, at least in Japan their largest Insurance Company just eliminated some 7k people.