{"id":32828,"date":"2016-12-21T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T21:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:16","slug":"the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation","title":{"rendered":"The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It\u2019s Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even in the best case, automation leaves the first generation of workers it displaces in a lurch because they usually don\u2019t have the skills to do new and more complex tasks, Mr. Acemoglu found in <a href=\"http:\/\/economics.mit.edu\/files\/11512\">a paper<\/a> published in May.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stilwell, 35, of Evansville, Ind., is one of them. He did not graduate from high school and worked in factories building parts for tools and cars, wrapping them up and loading them onto trucks. After he was laid off, he got a job as a convenience store cashier, which pays a lot less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to have a really good job, and I liked the people I worked with \u2014 until it got overtaken by a machine, and then I was let go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F12%2F21%2Fupshot%2Fthe-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation.html%3Fsmid%3Dfb-nytimes%26smtyp%3Dcur%26_r%3D2\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.c...r%26_r%3D2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in the best case, automation leaves the first generation of workers it displaces in a lurch because they usually don\u2019t have the skills to do new and more complex tasks, Mr. Acemoglu found in a paper published in May. Robert Stilwell, 35, of Evansville, Ind., is one of them. He did not graduate from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59423,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828\/revisions\/59423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}