That study is bullshit. It's probably more the opposite - ~15% job losses caused by automation and 85% caused by trade policy. You only have to look at their o

That study is bullshit. It's probably more the opposite - ~15% job losses caused by automation and 85% caused by trade policy. You only have to look at their opinions on "right to work" laws to see whose side they're batting for (not employees). Automation is simply being used as a scapegoat and a political justification for keeping trade policies that export jobs in place. >Manufacturing has a powerful political resonance, Manufacturing ecosystems take decades to fully destroy and decades to fully rebuild. The flow of goods on container ships can be halted overnight - which has happened before and will happen again. There's a country that begins with Z and a country that begins with V that enacted policies that deliberately sabotaged their local industrial and agricultural base and assumed they could always just import what they needed. Spoiler alert: it didn't end well for either of them.