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True Dough

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11. And the thing about jobs

Reply to Norbert (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 03:41 AM

Dec 2016

that is most impressive is even though many of them are part-time and lower-paying than in the past, they are being created in the face of automation.

Automation -- efficiency through mechanization -- has taken away countless human jobs. That's a big factor in the Rust Belt. Don the Con likes to talk about how he's going to bring jobs back, but he cannot (and would not) turn back the clock on automation.

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