Originally Posted by jwb

@ debaser your article mostly talks about how people have feared technology taking their jobs in the past, where as the overall number of jobs has grown.

This is true but also misleading. As the manufacturing sector has been decimated in the United States, it has mostly been replaced by service and/or retail jobs that pay a fair amount less. The middle class is shrinking cause decent, blue collar jobs that earn a decent living are disappearing.

On top of this, automation is starting to branch out into virtually every sector of low skilled work. Even retail and service jobs are going to start to take a hit. Also truck driving jobs, one of the last decent blue collar jobs, is slated to be automated in the coming decades.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.