Interesting piece in WIRED this month about the future of work -
"The inexorable tide of tech improvements will continue to make blue-collar manufacturing jobs obsolete in the United States. Take the textile industry — we now have the tech to detect minute physical characteristics of fibers and match machinery accordingly, allowing one farmer in America to produce what it might take 800 farmers in China or Kazakhstan to produce."
We've seen reports for the last year talking about the reemergence of manufacturing in the United States - I think this may be true - but, the issue is, the jobs won't follow them back.
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