The Robots Taking the Jobs Gang Are as Out of Touch with Reality as the Trumpers

I know we are supposed to view the AI and robot folks as great gurus of the future, but at the moment they look like people who have great difficulty with simple arithmetic. We just got new numbers on productivity today and they were not very good, and they were especially not very good in manufacturing, the sector where we are supposed to have the greatest fear of job-killing robots. And, it's not just the last quarter I'm talking about.

Productivity growth in manufacturing has averaged well...