During the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century and until the mid-50s (I'm guessing) the majority of US Labor was manual. People on assembly lines cranking out widgets. With the advent of technology, we have slowly moved from a production society to a service society. Most of the assembly lines have been automated, a Caterpillar tractor has replaced 25 ditchdiggers, etc.
There are approximate 12 million undocumented workers filling the jobs that most Americans supposedly won't work. Basically, the remnants of the physical labor industries that haven't been automated yet.
In twenty years, if things do not changed, we will swell to 50 million undocumented. If automation continues and strawberries are picked by machine, and lawn are mowed by machine, how will the American economy be able to support 50 million unemployed?
2006-06-30
08:04:22
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