The Robots Are Coming! The Robots Are Coming!
Category: POLITICS
Robots have indeed eliminated a great deal of factory work and are rapidly moving on to product design, medical diagnostics, research, teaching, accounting, translating, copy editing, and a great deal more. Once-secure professions are no longer safe. From that, many economists conclude that we may just have to adjust to a high plateau of unemployment. That assumption is malarkey.
By Robert Kuttner, ContributorCo-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect', 2015-05-24