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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by andrenth on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:45PM (#16120207)
The auto industry is heavily automated and yet more people than ever work on it now.
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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by kilotaras on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:25AM (#16124467)
If you're talking about US that's incorrect. There's a fall from peak 1.3m in 2000 to 940k in 2017 employees in automanufacturing[1] despite total population rising from 280m to 325m. Percentagewise it went from .46% to .28% of population.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm

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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by andrenth on Friday January 12, 2018 @08:03PM (#16137640)
A 0.2% fluctuation is noise and doesn’t detract from the point. According to the automation fear mongerers we should be seeing massive unemployment.
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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by kilotaras on Saturday January 13, 2018 @10:12AM (#16139855)
That's not a 0.2% fluctuation, but 1.6x decrease. Treating it as 0.2% would treat completely wiping automanufacturing jobs as "only", 0.46% fluctuation.
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Re:Without right policies, automation risks shift of income ... by andrenth on Sunday January 21, 2018 @06:48PM (#16200812)
Again, where is the massive unemployment?
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