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(47,470 posts) Wed Sep 1, 2021, 09:35 PM Sep 2021

Coming on PBS: The future of work. Supposed to be interesting.. and was depressing

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about how so many jobs were lost to automation and outsourcing.

I drew two conclusion:

First, the so called American Dream, where the next generation did better existed only in the mid 20th Century. After WWII to be precise.

Two: this is how Trump won. He touched on these lost jobs in Youngstown Ohio, for example and promised to bring the jobs back which, of course, is impossible. But he appeared to care to offer results, to find someone to blame.