[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I hope there are some smart conservatives who are thinking about how to make conservative ideas work within an economy where 40-50 percent of today’s jobs are automated. Because it’s coming to that, sure as the sunrise.

[rdcbn]

Automation does not necessarily eliminate jobs.

The history of automation is that it may displace automatable jobs, but it creates many new jobs in entirely new and novel industries created by the advances in technology and fueled by increased productivity generated by automation

The Automation Paradox is that the technological advances and research, development and production of these advanced robots and automation systems needed to Americans out of work will generate so much economic activity and consumer and capitol goods output that we will have to import workers to provide enough labor and technical support.

Think of what it has taken to get a personal computer in most every home in America starting with the Apple II in the 1970s .

Extrapolate that to every commercial, industrial and consumer product or machine in our country.

What you are talking about is another wave in the series of waves in the Industrial and technological revolution

The amount of economic activity needed to develop, commercialize, manufacture , train and deploy all this technology world wide is a staggering task and one which keep people employed for two generations

[Mr. Jeeves]

I hope there are some smart conservatives who are thinking about how to make conservative ideas work within an economy where 40-50 percent of today’s jobs are automated.

Well, we have to make clear that we value the individual and the life of the individual. The Left can't go there. But many on the so-called "Right" can't, either.

[central_va]

Automation is not the problem, offshoring is the problem.