[kabar]

The people who lose their jobs due to automation are the low skilled. Unless they can acquire new skills they will fall behind and be part of a permanent underclass. We have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years.

Government data collected in December 2014 show 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the United States who arrived in January 2000 or later. But only 9.3 million jobs were added over this time period. In addition, the native-born population 16 and older grew by 25.2 million. Because job growth has not come close to matching immigration and population growth, the share of Americans in the labor force has declined dramatically — a clear indication there is no labor shortage.

We have a surplus of labor and automation will reduce the number of jobs for our least skilled and educated. 40% of non-immigrant headed households have a HS diploma or less. 44% of legal immigrant headed households have a HS degree or less and 78% of the illegal headed households have a high school diploma or less.

[dfwgator]

And what are all of these low-skilled people going to do?

There used to be a lot of jobs for people without an education. What are all of these people going to do.

Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.