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Originally Posted by Robbie
How is it the "same old thing"???
The Federal Govt. has been helping to ship those jobs overseas through policy, taxes, and regulations and trade deals for almost 30 years now.
Bringing them back would be "new".
As for being replaced by robots...again, I've heard that my entire life. And it's been the line we've been fed ever since NAFTA.
And yet...somehow...those jobs are STILL being done by humans 30 years later. Only it's not Americans doing it anymore.
Think about that a second.
And yeah, I know...technology has advanced. Same thing they said in 1990 as well.
Technology ALWAYS advances. And automation is always happening.
Doesn't mean we can't bring back millions of jobs that are still being done by human beings.
What you're saying is kind of like: "Well, we're all gonna die someday...so no use waiting around for it...might as well commit suicide"
And that's what the Federal Govt. trade deals, tax laws, and regulations over the last few decades have amounted to: The country killing itself.
It's senseless to me.
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I guess what I am ultimately saying is this:
In my opinion, Trump's promises to bring back jobs and manufacturing to the US is a big house of cards that is going to eventually collapse under the weight of automation. I don't know when it will happen, but I think we will start to see major shifts towards automation in many areas in the next 10 years. I don't have a problem with trying to bring back good jobs, but I would also like to see us preparing for the inevitable. I know you think it may never happen or won't happen on such a scale it will cease human manufacturing and I will agree that there will always be a need for people in those factories. I just think we are not too far off from having factories that run with a handful of employees as opposed to hundreds or even thousands. I feel we would be better suited to try to prepare for the future than to try to simply placate them with jobs that may not last very long.
I agree that NAFTA sucks and I think we can do some things to bolster our economy and having new jobs isn't a bad thing. I just feel that we are at a time in history when we are about to undergo a sea change in our economy and we would be best served to look to the future and try to prepare for it as best we can.