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MichMan

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5. Embrace automation

Reply to Crutchez_CuiBono (Reply #4)

Sun May 6, 2018, 11:53 AM

May 2018

It isn't going away. People with skills in designing, building, repairing, programming, and maintaining automation will be in very high demand with good wages.

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Job losses from automation or trade pacts? Will we learn from this? [View all] KPN May 2018 OP

The two are linked MichMan May 2018 #1

At some point the profit at any cost Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #2

Wouldn't that cause even more automation or production moved overseas? MichMan May 2018 #3

So whats the answer? Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #4

Embrace automation MichMan May 2018 #5

yeah.. Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #6

Apparently you have little understanding of manufacturing MichMan May 2018 #7

Automation is not responsible for the vast KPN May 2018 #8

How would you reverse it? Tariffs? Ban trade ? MichMan May 2018 #9

First, it should never have happened. It was about corporate America and complicit KPN May 2018 #10