‘Routine’ Jobs Are Disappearing
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#2Hasn't this been a recognized trend since the "jobless recovery" of 2009?
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#3Welding is not a routine job. Good welders make pretty good money.
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#4This is, for society at the very least, a "good thing". Who's dream is it to perform a "relatively narrow set of repeated tasks" for 8 hours a day? As mentioned, take these "prime aged workers" teach them skills, and suddenly we have a spike in actually valuable labour instead of a middle class of unfulfilled office drones stuck in a stupor. IMO, the framing should be look at this amazing business opportunity to onboard high value workers, not cautionary doom.
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#5It is interesting that the people who are losing jobs aren't retraining. What exactly is Trump/Republican party going to do to help with that? Bring back Coal when renewable is cheaper?
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#6So the normal 'human' link is paywalled but access through Google news is complete. Why is this unfair practice not penalized by Google?
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#7Welding is not a routine job. Good welders make pretty good money.
I don't think they were talking about welders, but welding machine operators.
https://job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/Welding-Machine-O...
From this job description it seems like a job that is very easily automated, as you're not doing anything interesting, just feeding the machine and making small adjustments.
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#8It is interesting that the people who are losing jobs aren't retraining. What exactly is Trump/Republican party going to do to help with that? Bring back Coal when renewable is cheaper?
Probably dead nothing and then blame liberals and Mexicans again in 4 years when everything has got worse.
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#9Mirror: https://archive.is/Tltad
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#10This is, for society at the very least, a "good thing". Who's dream is it to perform a "relatively narrow set of repeated tasks" for 8 hours a day? As mentioned, take these "prime aged workers" teach them skills, and suddenly we have a spike in actually valuable labour instead of a middle class of unfulfilled office drones stuck in a stupor. IMO, the framing should be look at this amazing business opportunity to onbo…
Who is going to 'take' people and teach them skills?