re: #241 windsagio

It really does put the lie to ‘what’s good for business is good for America’

Chemicals plants are some of the best examples of this. There are refineries and other plants that once employed thousands of workers that now literally get by with about a dozen workers.

This is a large reason for the contraction of the middle class, or the upper lower class, whatever way you want to look at it. Automation replaces skilled and semi-skilled labor, and the service jobs that are available in greater numbers pay much less and have far less job security and portability.