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The auto industry is heavily automated and yet more people than ever work on it now.

• kilotaras 9y ago
  If you're talking about US that's incorrect. There's a fall from peak 1.3m in 2000 to 940k in 2017 employees in automanufacturing[1] despite total population rising from 280m to 325m. Percentagewise it went from .46% to .28% of population. [1] https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm
  • andrenth 9y ago
    A 0.2% fluctuation is noise and doesn’t detract from the point. According to the automation fear mongerers we should be seeing massive unemployment.
    • kilotaras 9y ago
      That's not a 0.2% fluctuation, but 1.6x decrease. Treating it as 0.2% would treat completely wiping automanufacturing jobs as "only", 0.46% fluctuation.
      • andrenth 9y ago
        Again, where is the massive unemployment?