09-20-2018, 03:26 PM
(09-20-2018, 03:03 PM)Benton Wrote: With respect, I think you're hung up on technology killing all the jobs.
Does it? Sure. It always has. But it likewise creates jobs.
And that's not what I'm talking about, and doesn't really have to do with moving jobs done by people overseas. How many jobs? It's hard to tell as there's direct employers and indirect providers with few rules governing reporting, but conservative estimates are a few million jobs held overseas.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-u-s-companies-reveal-how-much-they-rely-on-overseas-workers-1523448000
Worth noting from the article, not all those jobs are leaving because of cheap labor, some are just open markets.
We'll get to the battles against Skynet. But that's not the problem right now.
No not all jobs, but a lot of jobs that require little or no no specialized skill. Trucking is being attacked by the driver less car industry, Warehouse workers will be replaced by sorting robots soon as Amazon pushes hard, Food service is already testing the kiosks and automated cooking robots. I think you are under estimating how much can easily be replaced by robots. What it does is the same thing it has always done when tech comes in, even advancements in machinery, it shifts jobs from unskilled labor to semi skilled. What we continue to hunt for is a resurgence in unskilled labor and it simply will not come back. This however is probably it's own thread as it could go on and on.
To the point of this thread though just not a fan of Tariffs, especially in a trade war with a country that can hit us back almost as hard.
