I understand what you are saying regarding the people sent home by robotics. On the other hand, there is no doubt that 100 years ago those same people’s great grandfathers were looking for a job coming off the farm, due to the mechanization of agriculture and the fact that farmers didn’t need nearly as many farm hands. Somehow it all worked out.
” On the other hand, there is no doubt that 100 years ago those same people’s great grandfathers were looking for a job coming off the farm, due to the mechanization of agriculture and the fact that farmers didn’t need nearly as many farm hands. “
100 years ago, the workers who left the Agriculture Industry were absorbed by the burgeoning Industrial Revolution..
Since ‘labor intensiveness’ is the antithesis of the IT Revolution, what is there, now or on the horizon, to absorb the ‘post-industrial’ workforce??
That’s the structural problem we face, and ‘Somehow, something will work out’ isn’t a ‘solution’......
My people were famers. It worked out then because we had an exploding industrial revolution and the beginning of real mass production. The displaced farm hands were swallowed up by assembly lines, shipyards, machine shops, factories, and an auto industry that was beginning to take off. In 1910, we were beginning to get serious in aviation, and within four years, we had a World War.
"On January 13, 1910, the first public radio broadcast was an experimental transmission of a live Metropolitan Opera House performance of several famous opera singers." Now, there was a reason for still more assembly lines, as a sudden new insatiable demand was created.
All these began to create a middle class, an employed one, with money to spend. "Service Industries" were represented as..? A bell boy in a hotel, I guess, or a baggage handler at a railroad. station.
It wasn't just farm hands, but displaced farmers and their families.
The biggest single obstacle to the creation of jobs in America is government regulation.