Uh... hello - this is what I've been talking about...
We are on the cusp of the birth of AI and advanced mechanization the likes of which will change many industries, including white collar ones, not just manufacturing. Not only may it not be feasible to bring those jobs back, we may be playing defense on other existing jobs as well. And that includes mine.
Good luck, Trump. Building a wall and pretending it's 1980 is not gonna keep this away.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps...202156153.html
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From Federal Reserve data, it seems relatively clear that scapegoating China and Mexico misses a good portion of what’s going on. Domestic manufacturing sector output (blue line) is at an all time high, back to the pre-recession levels of 2008. But the red line, employment, shows that the output has not created jobs.
“US factories are not disappearing; they simply aren’t employing human workers,” Rice University professor of computational engineering Moche Vardi told Factor earlier this year. “Job losses due to automation and robotics are often overlooked in discussions about the unexpected rise of outside political candidates like Trump and Bernie Sanders.”
As Vivek Wadhwa, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon put the question in the Chicago Tribune: “Trump may be able to keep immigrants out, but how will he stop the advance of robots?” Those robots will likely be an ever-growing hurdle for the president-elect making good on his promise of reinvigorating old-school manufacturing jobs.
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