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Once upon a time, there was an implied contract between business and labor: employees supplied their energy and knowledge to build things for which companies paid them. The workers then used their wages to buy products made by business. It was a virtuous circle that made capitalism work for all concerned. But now, the new […] May 6th, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: artificial intelligence, assembly line, automaticn, capitalism, employee, Ford, Ford automotive, low-skilled immigrants, robot, technology, upgrade, worker |  Email This Post |  Print This Post America’s newspaper of record had an interesting item earlier this month titled “The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting.” The New York Times apparently meant to remind readers that smart machines aren’t just coming for simple manufacturing jobs, but also for the office gigs that require education. True, it’s easier to imagine physical robots […] March 21st, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: accounting, AI, artificial intelligence, automation, economy, office, robot, software, technology, worker | Email This Post | Print This Post Is it really true that farmworkers are in short supply? America’s southern border has been wide open for decades, but we are still told that there aren’t enough pickers — perhaps at the wage that farmers want to pay. Automation can solve the problem here, if one exists. Machines are coming into the marketplace that […] December 21st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: agriculture, automation, employee, farm, robot, worker | Email This Post | Print This Post Presumably some of the Honduran caravansters headed north to invade America have construction skills and may think they can make a pile of Yankee dollars working in the building trades. That expectation would not be unreasonable, since CIS reported in 2013 that only 66 percent of US construction workers were Americans. Below, the Wall Street […] October 27th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: aliens, automation, border, bricklayer, caravan, construction, Hadrian, Honduran, Honduras, illegal, illegal alien, immigration, invader, robot, technological unemployment, Wienerberger, worker | Email This Post | Print This Post The State Department’s program of admitting thousands of foreign college students on the J-1 visa program has been a stab in the back to young Americans looking for a job in a toxic employment environment. The current youth unemployment rate is the highest since World War II, and an August BLS survey reported that more […] November 7th, 2011 | Category: job displacement | Tags: foreign, job displacement, unemployment, worker | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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