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by alttab 4365 days ago
If capitalism works, it will solve that problem. In other industries there are talent shortages. Maybe markets will be created on making tools to raise the relative skillset of a displaced workforce?
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One can hope, and I would sincerely like to think that new markets within manufacturing or other "old" industries are going to emerge. Off-shoring isn't the cheap solution it once was. Then again, I tend to be very critical of the belief that other industries have "shortages": http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...