Robert Samuelson Is Right Again: Robot Are Not Taking Our Jobs

No, I'm not about to become a charter member of the Robert Samuelson fan club, but he does get the basic story right in his column this morning. The robots are not taking our jobs, or at least not at an especially rapid pace. As Samuelson correctly points out, robots are just a form of productivity growth and productivity growth has been very slow in recent years. This is 180 degrees at odds with the robots taking our jobs story.

In fact, we should want more robots taking our jobs. That would...

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Published on June 01, 2016 22:35
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