First, Detroit isn't a closed system. Yes, those jobs are gone in Detroit-but people moved elsewhere. Almost every major manufacturing industry is now automate

First, Detroit isn't a closed system. Yes, those jobs are gone in Detroit-but people moved elsewhere. Almost every major manufacturing industry is now automated, we don't have to go to the future to see the effects of automation. These assembly line workers had to have gone somewhere, because if they haven't, we'd be experiencing extreme unemployment now-let alone the future.