2020 Democrats split in growing divide on US trade policy

[Amimnoch]

9. THIS, and thank you! Our industrial revolution paradigm is changing.

Electrical engineers/Electronics Technicians/electricians - especially those with PLC experience/training...
Mechanical Engineers/Mechanics/mechanic techs, especially those with pneumatics and hydraulics..

Huge shortages in those trades both here and abroad.

Automation is here, and is only going to grow and expand.

Our education system needs a total revamp to meet this new paradigm. Our industrial revolution mentality needs a whole.. update and reboot..

Go out to any major highway, and just look at the road for 10 minutes.. Count the number of 18-wheelers/semi's hauling loads, taxi's, delivery vehicles. In the next decade or 2, pretty much most/all of those jobs are going away.

Self check-out, and now even automated smart stores that don't even require check out are growing industries.. less jobs.

Airport check-in kiosks. Fast food and restaurant ordering kiosks..

Something is eventually going to have to give. Our entire self-worth based on our job mentality is going to have to change. The whole must work 40 hour (and in many cases 80+ hour) work weeks will need a revamp.

Offices that once required an entire pool of admins now only need 1 or 2 because of advanced computer and software technologies.

Accountants? Same situation.

Heck candidate Hickenlooper just pointed out part of this paradigm when it comes to preventative healthcare technology that can be used to almost replace primary care physicians.

A smart move would be to revamp our school system to focus more on the tech of this technological revolution, and as jobs evaporate pushing businesses to hire more people, but at fewer hours to take advantages of all these goods and services that will be produced through automation.

Forget "minimum wage" all together.. it's a completely fake and fluid metric. Our focus should be on ensuring a minimum quality of life across the board.. if that means 20 hour work weeks that can ensure decent modern housing, modern transportation, modern and comprehensive healthcare rights, internet (this is no longer "optional luxury&quot , Food for the table, power for the home, and well, just a basic modern quality of life guarantee. When you boil it down, there's no excuse not to have these.