13353173, A lot of the automation arguments that underpin his whole campaign... Posted by stravinskian, Thu Oct-24-19 11:10 AM
turn out not to be very well supported by the facts. Or to the extent they are, they leave out crucial context.
I was surprised to learn this myself, because I'm as terrified as everyone is about the new wave of automation. But for big picture economic stuff, I put Krugman's analysis ahead of the tech-bro dystopianism we usually hear:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/opinion/democrats-automation.html
"That is, blaming robots for our problems is both an easy way to sound trendy and forward-looking (hence Biden talking about the fourth industrial revolution) and an excuse for not supporting policies that would address the real causes of weak growth and soaring inequality."
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