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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by jjcon on Monday July 27, 2020 @08:54PM (#23971144)
I imagine a lot of it is due to automation - there are in fact less assembly line jobs than there were in the 40s but economically the sector has continued to grow.
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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by varjag on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:28AM (#23974245)
Automation in the industry is a big lie, the degree of it since post-WW2 days (when most of modern mass production methods were perfected) is greatly overstated.

It is mostly due to outsourcing the labor-intensive parts to cheaper labor markets.

The hypothetical robots are people working elsewhere.

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