Companies are already beginning to lay off white-collar jobs for artificial intelligence, according to Post columnist Glenn H. Reynolds. In “The True Believer,” Eric Hoffer wrote, “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.”
We’re about to find out just how right he was.
From the 1970s to roughly now, offshoring and automation gobbled up blue-collar factory-type jobs.Auto companies laid off workers by the thousands and sent factories to Canada and Mexico.In 1977, on what Salena Zito calls “the day that destroyed the working class,” Youngstown […]
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