Postage stamp from 1960 commemorating the first automated post office. (Getty Images). Millions of jobs lost to automation. Pundits decrying that machines are increasingly displacing humans in the workforce. The federal government running advertising and training programs to retrain displaced workers for increasingly technical jobs in an era of automation with slogans like “You won’t get tomorrow’s job with yesterday’s skills!” A president who offers that “the major domestic challenge … [is] to maintain full employment at a time when automation, of course, is replacing [people].” While this perfectly describes 2019, it actually describes America half a century ago […]
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