Automation - Unintended Consequences

More than 40 years Paul Schrenker told me automation meant loss of factory jobs. Not immigration, as Donald Trump would have it.  

This fact continues, check outAutomated trucks could cost 500,000 US jobs, researchers say:

Assuming the researchers' visions of what automated long-haul trucking will look like are correct, as many as 500,000 jobs could be lost across the trucking industry. This includes not only long-haul truckers, but the maintenance and support staff working at the truck stops that support those truckers on their journeys. Such staff would no longer be needed if self-driving trucks were completing the majority of the journey. 

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