Automation has driven up living standards, but could AI bring an economic and social storm? T he abandoned factories littered across America’s Rust Belt stand as a testament to the collateral damage of globalisation. As competition from abroad has limited job opportunities for low-skilled workers in many Western countries, populists have capitalised, painting globalisation as a disease, and protectionism as the cure.
But another threat to the working classes looms in cities such as Greenville, South Carolina. Greenville is a modern manufacturing success story that is home to BMW, Bosch, Michelin and General Electric factories, providing job opportunities and […]
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