Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate
by quickthrowman on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:45PM
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> In all those cases, there's little or no job growth. Just a couple administrators and engineers. Nobody on the line, because there is no line, just robots and conveyors.
Someone has to maintain the robots and conveyors, unless you’re assuming that has also been automated. I suppose this could also be contracted out if it hasn’t been automated.
Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:06PM
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Yes that's often mentioned. But the human cost is a percent of what old-style factories employed
Sure factories employ skilled labor. But very few. And what are unskilled laborers supposed to do?
American has 30M folks who's employment has descended to service industry (teller, cashier, food service). They can't all be retrained as Engineers, even if we needed 30M more Engineers which we don't.
In all those cases, there's little or no job growth. Just a couple administrators and engineers. Nobody on the line, because there is no line, just robots and conveyors.