This is what a Donald double down looks like.

It's just way to much work to blame automation. Much easier to blame China or illegals.

The U.S. has lost 5 million factory jobs since 2000. And trade has indeed claimed production jobs – in particular when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Nevertheless, there was no downturn in U.S. manufacturing output. As a matter of fact, U.S. production has been growing over the last decades. From 2006 to 2013, “manufacturing grew by 17.6%, or at roughly 2.2% per year,” according to a report from Ball State University. The study reports as well that trade accounted for 13% of the lost U.S. factory jobs, but 88% of the jobs were taken by robots and other factors at home.

http://fortune.com/2016/11/08/china-automation-jobs/

People have forgotten it wasn't that long ago people typed on typewriters without spell check and had to make corrections with white out.

Remember when the input for computers was punch cards and people built cars?

Who will we blame for self driving trucks.

 

I have a job, I am paying for the republicans stupid two 10+ year wars.. I would of rather that money went to help Americans

 

automation and AI, especially AI are gonna be a huge issue going forward

 

It's a bitter pill to swallow, but I'm not sure what else you do. Automation is eating it's way up and down the food chain.
The effects of 5G will be a game changer.
But the whole idea goes against what most people are taught, so it will be painful. I think it's where a lot of the anger with the "other" comes from. People feel like they have failed and been left behind. So they look for someone to blame. When in fact, they have just been replaced and don't have the skills to change fast enough.

 

could be a good world after the pain of change... that is if people don't start sending AI in to destroy the "others"

 

I disagree with our wars.
I would rather Americans weren't lazy dependent slugs and taxpayers got to keep their money

 

I wish mega corps were not so greedy and tricked down some of that money on hard working Americans instead of outsourcing the jobs to paces like India, ect...

 

Hard working Americans must not mind because they keep buying their stuff

 

doesn't mean they don't mind it, we bought from companies that used slavery too, and sweatshops, and other stuff, doesn't mean we approved

you really trying hard to defend corporations that hurt America, you an American?

 

I'm not defending them.
Americans that keep buying from them are.

 

not when they are monopolies, time to break them up

 

When they start making everything here and raising wages, you still gonna get cheep goods?

 

it's a trade off, if no one has jobs here and everything is made overseas, wont mater what the price is