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Showerthought: I was looking at old factory photos from my hometown and the number of people on the line was crazy
I found a picture from the local auto plant in 1995, and there were 47 people just in that one shot doing assembly work. The same spot today is just two robot arms and a guy watching a screen. Where do we think all those people ended up working?
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blair_nguyen16d ago
Wow, that's a wild shift. I read an article that said a lot of those manufacturing workers moved into logistics and warehousing, you know, in the big distribution centers. Some also went into equipment maintenance and repair, since someone's gotta fix all those robots.
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ryanm6016d ago
But what about the people who just can't make that jump to tech skills? I worry we're leaving a whole group behind who were great with their hands on an assembly line but aren't wired for computer diagnostics. The training programs for those repair jobs are intense, and not everyone can afford to go back to school. It feels like we swapped one good job for another that only some folks can get.
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aaron74016d ago
Yeah, and those warehouse jobs are no walk in the park either.
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