Slate is suggesting trade deals are responsible for more job losses than robots and therefore Yang is full of it. However, the last sentence says, "By prophesy

Slate is suggesting trade deals are responsible for more job losses than robots and therefore Yang is full of it. However, the last sentence says, "By prophesying imaginary problems, you ignore the real ones." But finding reasons people are losing jobs not due to robots does not mean robots aren't taking jobs. It's a mathematical fact that robots are taking jobs. Container ports are being automated and hundreds of longshoremen are laid off at each port. Robots in factories. At the end of "American Factory" (spoiler) coming... the solution to the problem of "lazy" American workers was, you guessed it, replacing them with robots. It isn't just factory work either. It isn't just blue collar work. The internet and technology and automation is replacing absolutely everyone. There will come a day when it'll be almost impossible for a human to find work. I believe companies will just stop hiring them. Pretty much all the "human" work will be done by independent contractors who will be able to command very high salaries. The article mentions how low wage truckers will drive the trucks in the cities, but I don't think they'll be low wage truckers. I remember learning about river captains who are flown out onto large ships when they need to navigate up river. They're experts and command very high wages to move the ships. It takes much experience to learn now to pilot ships through shifting river bottoms and curves. I don't think it'll be cheap when we need humans to take over.