[adilmoujahid]

Manufacturing output in the US has more than doubled in the last 3 decades, but the number of jobs in the sector has shrunk from 17.5M to 12.4M [1]

The main reason for this is automation.

I think the right question to ask is how to make the productivity from automation benefit more the workers?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/25/most-americ...

[jjoonathan]

Are these the funny numbers that use intel's massive profits multiplied by a moore's law value adjustment factor to hide the decline of everything else?

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...