Robots weld the bed of a 2018 Ford F-150 truck at the Ford Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan. (Carlos Osorio/AP) The presidential debates have featured several candidates with new proposals to curb the threat automation poses to workers. Andrew Yang has his signature Freedom Dividend, giving $1,000 a month to every American to alleviate technological unemployment.
There’s a catch with all of these solutions, though. The problem they’re meant to solve doesn’t exist. Ignatios Draklellis (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) The idea that jobs are being automated so quickly that it is displacing workers and causing societal dysfunction has become ubiquitous in […]
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