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b_b  ·  4282 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Jobs Are Never Coming Back

Maybe the author meant to say "those jobs are never coming back". There is no evidence that we won't reach full employment again. Robots taking our jobs isn't evidence. Tractors took all the farmers jobs once upon a time, too. Throughout history, technology has always led to a larger, more stable economy. Its no different this time. Let's not forget that banking caused our calamity, not technology. Gloom-and-doomers have been around since Athens; they're all assholes. This is an ideological argument, not a data driven one.