{"id":30898,"date":"2016-10-09T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/industrial-robots-will-replace-manufacturing-jobs-and-thats-a-good-thing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:25","slug":"industrial-robots-will-replace-manufacturing-jobs-and-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/industrial-robots-will-replace-manufacturing-jobs-and-thats-a-good-thing","title":{"rendered":"Industrial robots will replace manufacturing jobs \u2014 and that\u2019s a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/industrial-robots-will-replace-manufacturing-jobs-and-thats-a-good-thing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you listen to the wrong people, the North American manufacturing industry is doomed.<\/p>\n<p>There is no denying that the U.S. and Canada have been losing jobs to offshore competition for almost half a century. From 2000 to 2010 alone, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/williams081716.php3\">5.6 million jobs disappeared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, though, only 13 percent of those jobs were lost due to international trade. The vast remainder, 85 percent of job losses, stemmed from \u201cproductivity growth\u201d \u2014 another way of saying machines replacing human workers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/09\/industrial-robots-will-replace-manufacturing-jobs-and-thats-a-good-thing\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/09\/industrial-robots-will-rep...ood-thing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen to the wrong people, the North American manufacturing industry is doomed. There is no denying that the U.S. and Canada have been losing jobs to offshore competition for almost half a century. From 2000 to 2010 alone, 5.6 million jobs disappeared. Interestingly, though, only 13 percent of those jobs were lost due [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60126,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30898\/revisions\/60126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}