AP: Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs
Odd that they forgot to mention outsourcing
http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2013/01/ap-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobs?et_cid=3054667&et_rid=54679148&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.manufacturing.net%2fnews%2f2013%2f01%2fap-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobs
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They're being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived.
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for not addressing this as we go forward. We need to be having a conversation about how not to leave 100 million people whose best, best hope is 60 years of a low-wage future to an ending in poverty. That is the road we are on because we keep trying to rebuild a past that is gone instead of figuring out how we thrive in the future.
