{"id":31821,"date":"2016-11-10T00:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T08:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/trump-promises-to-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-but-robots-wont-let-him"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:23:23","slug":"trump-promises-to-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-but-robots-wont-let-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/trump-promises-to-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-but-robots-wont-let-him","title":{"rendered":"Trump promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, but robots won\u2019t let him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trump-promises-to-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-but-robots-wont-let-him.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Americans struggling with stagnant wages, under- or un-employment, one of Donald Trump\u2019s most appealing campaign promises was to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2016\/jul\/15\/donald-trumps-top-10-campaign-promises\/\">bring manufacturing jobs back<\/a> to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Navigating the complexities of policy, tariffs and geopolitics would make that hard enough already for the president elect. But technology will make this promise nearly impossible to fulfill.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because manufacturing jobs are increasingly done by robots, not people.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/09\/trump-promises-to-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-but-robots-wont-let-him\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&sr_share=facebook\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/09\/trump-promises-to-bring-ba...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Americans struggling with stagnant wages, under- or un-employment, one of Donald Trump\u2019s most appealing campaign promises was to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Navigating the complexities of policy, tariffs and geopolitics would make that hard enough already for the president elect. But technology will make this promise nearly impossible to fulfill. Why? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49614,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821\/revisions\/49614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}