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Interestingly, just last year, Steve Jobs told Obama "Those jobs aren't coming back". http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-m
by reitzensteinm 14y ago
Interestingly, just last year, Steve Jobs told Obama "Those jobs aren't coming back".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...
- jfoutz 14y agoThose jobs aren't. There might be cool new manufacturing design jobs. Anything repetitive will, inevitably, be automated away.
- mcantelon 14y agoManufacturing design jobs are for average humans, unfortunately. Until something replaces the jobs lost that are suitable for average humans, there will likely be a risk of political instability (which is likely one of the reasons why the US has been heavily investing in domestic counter-insurgence infrastructure over the last decade).