In Idaho, a researcher at the state Department of Labor looked into automation and how it may play out locally. His overall estimate is based on that of the Oxford analysts , that nearly half of state jobs are susceptible within a couple decades.
But there’s no mention that workers are shoppers and are the engine of America’s consumer-driven economy. Nobody is discussing how the financial system is supposed to function without a healthy population of shoppers.
Or that the automation revolution makes immigration obsolete . The robots haven’t taken over — yet. Technology already is changing work force and how […]
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