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Michael Ramirez

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  1. Ted Lind

    Ted Lind GoComics PRO Member said, about 4 hours ago

    Actually we are doing quite a bit better compared to the developed countries in the world. I know it is easy to blame it on Obama but what we are seeing is another major transition in the economy. Soon only a small percentage of workers will be able to produce all the material goods needed in the world. Manufacturing will go the way of agriculture which used to employ nearly half of all workers. Automation and robotics are already here. Artificial intelligence and connected computers are slowly taking over routine information worker jobs. Think of all the tellers ATMs have replaced. The real challenge is figuring out what we will all be working at in the future? Maybe we will only have a 35 hour work week or a four day week?

  2. John Locke

    John Locke said, about 3 hours ago

    @Ted Lind

    I don’t buy it. They’ve been saying essentially the same thing since the invention of the cotton gin. Work just changes. It doesn’t go away.

  3. Old Crow Nobo, really enjoying the yuuge GOP implosion

    Old Crow Nobo, really enjoying the yuuge GOP implosion said, about 3 hours ago

    And it had nothing to do with the republicons hiding in their shell for the last 7 years.

  4. guitarasaur

    guitarasaur said, about 3 hours ago

    Will somebody buy this cartoonist a newspaper AND read it to him? If he’s a Fox addict make it a Wall St. Journal.

  5. Olongapojoe

    Olongapojoe GoComics PRO Member said, about 2 hours ago

    @Ted Lind

    Not only manufacturing jobs are disappearing, unskilled service jobs are also going the way of the Dodo. This is being pushed faster by the Minimum wage activists. You tell a small business they have to pay double what they presently do, and they will find a way to stay profitable. That means food servers and counter people jobs are disappearing and being replaced by kiosks and computers at the table.

  6. Kaffekup

    Kaffekup said, about 2 hours ago

    And when you get it, defibrillate the republicans. They’ve been a drag on the economy for fifteen years.

  7. Alberta-oil

    Alberta-oil said, about 1 hour ago

    @John Locke

    I don’t buy it. They’ve been saying essentially the same thing since the invention of the cotton gin. Work just changes. It doesn’t go away.
    ~
    You may not like it but Ted Lind is absolutely right. Manual work is being replaced by technology.. at the same time there are more and more workers.
    One solution is work sharing.. everyone works half time.. Trouble is that it is hard to survive on full time work especially when all that extra free time costs more to enjoy.

  8. Alberta-oil

    Alberta-oil said, about 1 hour ago

    @Alberta-oil

    Politicians are claiming the solution is more education.. If only we had a better educated labour force the situation would be solved. A simplistic view that just passes the buck.
    There is an ever diminishing need for labour, trained or not, that will become the issue of this and for sure the next generation.

  9. superposition

    superposition said, 38 minutes ago

    re: economy
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-jobless-claims-fall-13000-to-253000-2016-04-14
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/100668336
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-18/rise-of-the-robots-will-eliminate-more-than-5-million-jobs

  10. sueamarlucan

    sueamarlucan said, 38 minutes ago

    @Old Crow Nobo, really enjoying the yuuge GOP implosion

    That’s right. It has EVERYTHING to do with Harry round filing anything suggested from across the isle and using the ‘nuclear option’. Careful what you wish for…flinging your crud hits everyone and stays on your hands, too.

  11. sueamarlucan

    sueamarlucan said, 36 minutes ago

    @guitarasaur

    A big bank publication so Bernie can tear it down and Hillary can ‘handle’ them like only she knows how?

  12. retpost

    retpost said, 26 minutes ago

    The REPUBLICANS are to busy trying to repeal the ACA to pass anything that will help the economy.

  13. leftwingpatriot

    leftwingpatriot said, 25 minutes ago

    Yesterday, the Intial Weekly Jobless Claim were 253,000 — the LOWEST number reported since 1973

  14. leftwingpatriot

    leftwingpatriot said, 24 minutes ago

    @guitarasaur

    The Wall Street Journal has the same owner as Fox News.

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