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It's interesting that many politicians, including Trump and Sanders, want policies to prevent jobs from leaving the US, but have no policy proposals around auto
by twblalock 10y ago
It's interesting that many politicians, including Trump and Sanders, want policies to prevent jobs from leaving the US, but have no policy proposals around automation.
If you want manufacturing jobs to stay in the US, regulating automation would be far more effective than trying to prevent companies from outsourcing jobs. (Incidentally, a lot of jobs that have been outsourced probably would have been automated if outsourcing had not been possible, and that's what opponents of outsourcing are missing.)
I'm very much against a policy to restrict automation, but it's worth pointing out.
- cnnsucks 10y agoYou know what else is interesting? The same part of the political spectrum that cites automation as the real cause of working class decline does not hesitate to rationalize mass immigration as necessary to fill the demand for labor. If automation is the problem then what are all the unskilled immigrants for?
- twblalock 10y agoWhat part of the political spectrum are you referring to? It certainly isn't part of the mainstream.
- james-watson 10y agoIt's funny how obvious the holes are when a little light is shined upon the patchwork that is the elite's master plan. The establishment parties are pure self serving propagandists, nothing more. They use marketing techniques to convince people that smoking is good for them, because they need to sell cigarettes. Nothing has changed.
- 2sk21 10y agoA Butlerian Jihad perhaps? Frank Herbet was really on to something in his Dune series.
- coldcode 10y agoBeing against automation does not make for good sound bites. But if the business of America is business (I forgot who said that, maybe Hoover or Coolidge?) and automation makes more profit, then it will happen assuming society doesn't fall apart first.