Cool, so Robbie the Robot kneecapped the American worker, and you propose letting the Chinese hold an AK47 to the American worker and finish him with a headshot?
LOL.
What do you propose to do with all the increasingly unemployed and underemployed people down the road?
I suppose you would support the expansion of Homeland Security, to prevent them from rebelling?
That's actually a very good question.
Every major business in every country has very talented people working on how to produce more with fewer workers.
And they will continue to do so, because your retirement fund and mine are managed by people who seek out the companies who bring in the best bottom lines.
We need to seriously think about an economic model that works in a world where we can produce everything we are producing now (and more) with half the employees.
Trying to turn back the clock to the assembly lines of 1955 is not the answer.
You know who is going to put the bullet to American workers?
Uber
Thumbtack
Homeadvisor
Self driving cars
The gig economy.
What once took thousands to do, will only take 1 worker to do. It is why Silicon Valley titans are floating the concept of a “guaranteed basic income”
The creativity and success of our tech industry is going to kill low skill jobs. Just like why we don’t have horse drawn carriage manufacturers anymore