Obama: Amazon is ‘killing traditional retail,’ and ‘relentless’ automation is the real threat to jobs

Obama: Amazon is ‘killing traditional retail,’ and ‘relentless’ automation is the real threat to jobs

Former U.S. President Barack Obama. (Facebook.com/WhiteHouse.) New U.S. President Donald Trump is focused on expanding the U.S. economy through tougher trade deals with countries including Mexico and China, and efforts to rebuild the base of manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Barack Obama says the Democratic Party should be thinking about the real threat to jobs: technology and automation.

“Automation is relentless and it’s going to accelerate,” Obama said in his final interview as president, a podcast with four of his former aides, published over the weekend. “You saw just what happened to retail stores, sales this past Christmas. Amazon and […]

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