So if, relatively speaking, black wages have not risen, and if despite educational gains women’s wages have yet to reach parity, and if between 2009 and 2014 more Mexicans left the United States than entered it, and if in a state like Louisiana there are relatively few anyway—just who is cutting in line? For the most part, the real line cutters are not people one can blame or politicians can thunder against. That’s because they’re not people. They’re robots. Nothing is changing the face of American industry faster than automation, and nowhere is that change more stark than in the cornerstone
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