OK, I read the article. Robots are the future of manufacturing. Supposedly robots are already making products in the USA. Conversely, the nation with the most robots will be the best at making products. The auto industry has a robot factory in Brazil. Wanted one in the USA. The unions would not allow its workers to be done away with. The robot factory was not built in the USA. Therefore, the robot nations win and the USA does not. China does not allow the Unions to mess up the future. China will be the leader of the 21 Century. 2nd place is not horrible. In terms of a race; the USA will be drafting on the leader(idol speculation).
The nation or nations with the buying power win. Without markets, production is pointless. If a given nation has buying power due to a large market, and the United States certainly has one of the largest if not the largest, then it holds most or all of the cards, given the will to direct trade with external partners in a manner that is beneficial to the domestic market. The domestic market is driven by consumers, you, me and all legal residents. Governments acting to the detriment of US legal residents should be penalized, in order to maintain the health and buying power of the market. Just how that is to be accomplished is a matter that is yet to be determined. It doesn’t necessarily have to be punitive, but punitive measures must always remain on the table.
We need to be the #1 robot nation. That means Americans need an educational system that gives them the ability to create things like robots instead of being stuck in jobs that will be replaced by them, eventually.
So Millenials and Gen X’er’s how’d that demand for a $15 minimum wage work out, eh? Feeling a little stupid now I bet...turns out their employers didn’t think they were worth as much as they thought they were after all. Good, they needed to learn a few lessons the hard way...
(idol speculation)Which one in particular, Baal, Nebo, Gad?
It is interesting workers are willing to give up their jobs to robots. Rage against the machine is certainly a future possibility.
In a static view, the proliferation of roots will put the population out of work. That would be the end of society. However, as with the 19th century Industrial Revolution, it will simply free up more minds to create more and different sorts of businesses and more efficient ways of getting things done, ergo we all get richer. In a non ideal world, where great swathes of the population are kept from working at all by bribery and coercion that may not happen or only happen partially.