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Originally Posted by TheWorkingMan
Interesting. Maybe it will get better under Trump. Maybe not, the future will tell.
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It's not going to get better no matter who is in the White House.
Automation is the future. It might not be in the immediate future, but it is coming fast. I read the other day that 80% of the nearly 6 million manufacturing jobs lost in the US i the last 10 years were because of automation. Anything that can be handled by a robot or a computer soon will be. Add in auto driving cars and we aren't too far off from a situation where there simply aren't enough jobs for everyone looking for a job.
The only way to fend this off is if these technological advances open up new fields (like the internet did) and these fields can create enough jobs to replace those that were lost, and there will be ways for people to learn how to do these new jobs.
It could be bleak for a while.