How Developing Countries Can Deal with Automation

As we remain mired in the longest period of weak productivity growth in recorded U.S. history, the NYT ran yet another on coping with the problem of automation creating mass job displacement. This one is focused on the developing world and asks how developing countries could cope with massive displacement of workers in agriculture and manufacturing.

Incredibly (perhaps not incredibly) the possibility of ignoring the patent and copyright monopolies that rich countries demand does not app...