The solution to automation-related job loss starts with admitting it’s happening

Automation is coming? No, it’s already here While the current administration focuses on bringing jobs back to the United States from China and Mexico, the real threat to job loss already resides within our borders. According to a study by two Ball State University professors, 87-percent of all manufacturing jobs lost from 2000 to 2010 weren’t due to globalization, but robots. All told, some five million fewer manufacturing jobs exist today than in 2000, a problem government leaders are mostly ignoring. TNW alum Martin Bryant likened it to ‘recklessly putting their heads in the sand‘ when describing politician’s views on automation. Brooklyn-based Voodoo Manufacturing…

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