New Tractor Supply store= junk

[Derek69SS]

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

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...)

[shadowgray396]

Originally Posted by Derek69SS

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...)

I agree, but still takes less people to keep the machines runing, then having factory workers who need benefits

[Hank70SS]

We're between 2 TSCs, less than 10 miles to either one. Just as you described Tony. Bins with junk tools and a lots of other junk. You can find some items that you can't get in other stores but for the most part, junk.

[Derek69SS]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

I agree, but still takes less people to keep the machines runing, then having factory workers who need benefits

True, but if it brings manufacturing back here by making it more cost-effective, those jobs will be created elsewhere, and they will be more specialized and higher paying like trucking, logistics, supplies, etc.

If 10 people and a bunch of machines can do the work here instead of 100 people in China, it's still a net gain for US employment...