Buggy whip manufacturers, automobiles yada yada yada I have heard it all before. I am touched by your innocent faith in how capitalism is continually advancing, self adjusting and will take care of this computerization/automation/robotics problem too. But it won’t. This time is different. The present 8% employment rate here will get worse from here.
Computerization/automation/robotics and free trade will only give us more angry vengeful Obama voters who vote against “the rich”. Democrats are very good at ginning up such resentment just look at the recent election. They will then jack up my taxes and your taxes to payoff the unemployed and get their votes.
You've heard it before because it's true. (You've probably heard that the earth is a sphere for the same reason.)
Why didn't computerization and robots cause unemployment to skyrocket during the 80's under Reagan? Answer: Because unemployment numbers are tied to the bigger economy, not the temporary displacement of workers replaced by technology.
Are you seriously blaming technology for the >8% unemployment numbers? Don't you think the multi-trillion dollar deficits being dumped on the economy by B Hussein Obama have something to do with it? I think you're on the wrong web site to be trashing capitalism and letting the Communist in Chief off the hook.
Computerization/automation/robotics and free trade will only give us more angry vengeful Obama voters who vote against “the rich”.
You're just plain wrong, FRiend. I don't know how else to put it. You're wrong.
You can't explain the logic of your conclusion; you just keep repeating it. I've given you multiple examples and explanations for why you're wrong. I've lead you to the water, but I can't make you drink.
Have fun bitterly blaming technological progress for what liberal policies and press have done.
Oh, and you'd better sell your dishwasher, washer and dryer and computer so as not to be hypocritical. You're surely adding to unemployment numbers by not hiring workers to do those things for you.