The claim that automation is responsible for massive job losses has been made in almost every one of the Democratic debates. In the last debate , technology entrepreneur Andrew Yang told of automation closing stores on Main Street and of self-driving trucks that would shortly displace “3.5 million truckers or the 7 million Americans who work in truck stops, motels, and diners” that serve them. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) suggested that the “automation revolution” was at “the heart of the fear that is well-founded.”
When Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) argued that trade was a bigger culprit than automation, the fact-checker […]
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