As the cost of human workers has risen, the cost of automation has fallen. Will robots eventually replace human workers, or will they just change the nature of how we work? We on “Marketplace Morning Report” have been following this question for years , and new data suggests that automation has ballooned during the pandemic.
Charlotte Howard, the U.S. business editor and New York bureau chief for The Economist, spoke to Marketplace’s David Brancaccio about the implications of the increasingly automated American workplace. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
David Brancaccio: With the labor shortage a clear […]
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