Even that though assumes that there are people needed in hi-tech manufacturing, and I'd say that assumption comes against a brick wall of automation. Sure, the

Even that though assumes that there are people needed in hi-tech manufacturing, and I'd say that assumption comes against a brick wall of automation. Sure, the lower-requirement manufacturing jobs went first but the more specialized and more precise ones are going away too. The jobs that are temporarily safe from robots are rapidly becoming a minority, and jobs that are completely safe from robots are an endangered species. I always find it interesting that in these sorts of articles, the absence of growth is the problem, as though manufacturing output (or the output of any industry really) can just keep growing and keep growing ad infinitum. Once we can make a box of tissues for every living person on the planet, the tissue industry must stop growing, because why would we make any more? Every given industry has a saturation point where output must level off, lest we drown our population in a sea of products they don't need, regardless of affordability.