Tommie has small hands. Smells like cabbage.
What a blithering idiot.
I saw him say this. And he smirked like he was happy about it.
No it’s the liberal’s demands to raise minimum wage that started the automation process in various industries. They own it. This is merely deflection using the normal liberal doublespeak / self-projection method.
I have another quote that carries the same weight:
The sky is falling...the sky is falling!! Chicken Little
Apparently Tom Friedman doesn't own a car. Did the creation of the car make some jobs obsolete? Absolutely. The hardest hit were blacksmith's whose entire business was shoeing horses. However, they soon adapted, and in the meantime many more good paying jobs were created.
Banks still have tellers even after the creation of ATM machines, just not as many. However, those ATM machines need to be serviced on a regular basis and so many better paying jobs were created as a result.
The list can go on & on, but the reality is that progress may eliminate some jobs but they also create jobs. Usually those jobs are better paying jobs too.
First, he has no idea how many hundreds of people it takes to run a "robotized" plant.
Secondly, right now that robotized plant with its hundreds or thousands of jobs are being built in Mexico rather than here... under Trump those jobs are coming home.
So, thought experiment. If the plant is robotized, why do you need to build it in a low wage country? Because, number one, there are hundreds or thousands of people working in these plants, still, and second, because the legal and regulatory environment trump all other considerations.
Does Loopy not understand that automation is the result of high wages. High wages are justified in a work force that can adapt, where, robot do the same thing over and over. Unions and their comrades in the Bolshekratic Party would have us with a buggy whip in each car.
When exactly did the “robotics are to blame for lack of jobs” narrative originate and how did it so suddenly become the latest fashion among the yentelligencia?
Friedman said on “Meet The Press’ this AM that people don’t listen with their ears, they listen with their stomachs”.
So what’s he doing on TV? Why didn’t he become a chef?
Americans are not going to be held hostage to this minimum wage crap that forces our kids out of the entry level job market in favor of low skilled adult illegals with a social security card. Plus I'm sick of making dinner I want my chefbot - and its taking to bloody long.
Oh yeah I was doing this when Obama was in office too.
The president has nothing to do with it other than all the regulations government oppressively puts on business owners.
Automation, robotics and all that jazz is going to lead to more opportunity - maybe who knows but the future usually plays out differently than we all imagine.
In the meantime building robots is lots of fun, especially when you start transforming junk around the house into machines that do your bidding - evil laugh
No Friedman.... That is what YOU and your Globalist buddies were going to do for the remaining jobs you could not export via NAFTA, GATT or the TPP you love so much.
The Unions knew this, and this is why the majority of them went against Hillary. As usual you are now lying in the public about your positions in order to confuse the weak minded.
Tin hat, anyone? If what this doofus says is so, then how come there have been so many commitments for job creations this past week?
Obamacare did more to accelerate automation to eliminate workers who had to have expensive health care than any tax could ever do. But, you’re a liberal. Tom, accustomed to a parallel reality
The Sky is Falling.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
signed,
Chicken Little
And who started the recent automation movement? Protesters demanding $15 minimum wage that were recruited, organized and paid for by Soros’ money with Obama’s full approval.