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Originally Posted by shadowgray396
Today's headlines, about US jobs
Technology is letting businesses cut costs and make humans expendable.
Businesses are cutting costs wherever they can. Outsourcing jobs overseas where operation costs are lower is just one example. However, the proliferation of new technology is changing the landscape of America’s job market. Automation is yet another fast-growing method of cutting costs, as these technological advances become cheaper and easier to implement — replacing jobs previously held by humans
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Luddites have been telling us this would happen since the early 1800s... The thing is, someone needs to build and maintain those machines.
While low-paying factory type work might be replaced by machines, higher paying specialized jobs are created, and when machines are doing the work, it no longer makes it cheaper to put the factory in a 3rd world country, halfway around the globe, because the machines cost the same to run here as they do there. (taxes and regulations excluded...)