healthy manufacturing = healthy middle-class
No everything electronic is made by Chinese slave labor. Those are the robots.
Because only the ChiComs can have any manufacturing operations, right?
I am no luddite, but I have some level of concern about automation. It will decrease the need for human labor.
But not all humans are capable of being systems analysts, AI programmers or network architects.
I think we might want to look into forming self-sustaining communities where people know how to farm, build houses, create and maintain machines. Not so much because they need these skills to survive — automation is likely to create a post-scarcity world where you have “stuff” and way too much time. Back to the land movements can be good because the alternative is to sit and home and watch The View on TV all day long.
Basic skills, it seems to me, are always a good thing to teach.
Are robots going to fix your car or build your house?
He’s right. Automation is taking manufacturing jobs away around the world. You can bring back the manufacturing but the jobs will stay gone. If you look at gross output the manufacturing sector in America is quite strong, it’s only when you start looking at the job numbers that things get rough. And that’s not improving.
>>I know his won’t be a popular opinion here.
Because most people don’t read past the headline or understand the purpose of the John Dewey method of education.
School, and undergrad college, teaches people to color inside the lines, to regurgitate facts, and to follow set schedules. It makes productive and compliant little citizens, not innovators. It rewards the loud extroverts and declares the introspective to be broken.
We will never be a manufacturing nation again (until the Progressives/Globalists destroy our way of life and force us to accept Third World wages).
“Moving forward, Ma said he believes the service industry will be the largest engine of job creation.”
We heard that already, right before our middle class got wiped out.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
America is vastly overpopulated, especially with imbeciles and illiterate, unskilled “immigrants”, who will be nothing but a drag on our economy and fiscal well-being for a long time. Obama even let in NATIVE Central Americans who don’t even speak Spanish! They came in by the tens of thousands, wrecking schools and social services. We need to end chain migration for ALL immigrants, stop unskilled immigration cold and adopt a New Zealand-like filter. We also need to stop subsidizing childbearing with tax breaks and the unearned “Earned Income Tax Credit” with Additional Credit. Why do we want stupid people reproducing? If they do, cut off welfare at the last child’s level. Automation changes EVERYTHING as far as population growth feeding the pension system. That is all over. Yet idiot libertarians continue to spew that nonsense.
Stupid.
Let the robots try biomanufacturing.
Or prototyping (i.e., making anything new.)
Or customized products.
BIG FAIL!!!!
We cannot become a nation of McDonald’s or Walmart workers in the “service industry”. Or those who treat elders as trash as “assisted living” workers. This is a recipe for a downward standard of living, among other things. PHOOEY!!!!
If you don’t have the manufacturing processes, then you don’t have the robotic processes either.
It’s not going to be an instant transition from skilled labor to robotics.
Someone has to service the robots. Someone has to program the robots. Someone has to design the product. Someone has to design the manufacturing process.
We need as much manufacturing in this country as we can get. And we can worry about the transitions later.
Seems like only yesterday I was reading an analysis of the devastation wrought on carriage and buggy whip manufacturing by introduction of the automobile.
My understanding is that the US economy has yet to recover from the event.
Alvin Toffler got there way way before you jack.
The way I see it is we’ll develop into two classes. The Gentry and the Serfs. The Gentry will propagate through inheritance and legacy acceptance into major universities and corporate board.
I think we can and should restore some manufacturing jobs, but I don't think the workers at these plant will enjoy the same level of prosperity that factory workers enjoyed in, say the 1960's.
Robots are already taking over manufacturing and inventory here and everywhere. Your average manufacturing joe, who’s either just out of prison or a High School drop out will be out of a job and skills in about 5-10 years. That’s how fast this is moving.
Even “thinking” jobs are rapidly being replaced by robots, AI, and other programs. Cars, forklifts, cranes, rail, even kitchens/restaurants will replace people with robots in a few short years unless something impedes the progress of the technology.
This article is especially ridiculous because China’s economic rise is entirely due to labor intensive manufacturing. The only reason Jack Ma’s company exists is because so much of the world’s manufacturing has relocated to China. Because China is a deeply corrupt dictatorship with no functioning judicial system and a culture of rip offs, he serves as an intermediary that allows non-Chinese to buy Chinese manufactured products with some protections. This racket would fall apart instantly if China’s share of world manufacturing dropped to 80’s levels. Ma’s wealth and power is dependent on manufacturing staying in China. This is classic advice given in bad faith.
We were being fed this line of crap in the 1980’s.