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(47,476 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 09:25 PM Dec 2016

So the one who will be labor secretary said, in the pasat, that workers can be

replaced by robots.

Indeed they have, on many manufacturing floors. This is what caused the reduction in manufacturing jobs. Now go and explain it to all the yahoos who voted for Trump so that he would "bring their jobs back." You can't have it both ways.

Perhaps you can. Trump world is certainly a bizzaro world.


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So the one who will be labor secretary said, in the pasat, that workers can be (Original Post) question everything Dec 2016 OP
The guy is also pro- cheap immigrant labour. ... JHan Dec 2016 #1
I'm pretty sure he said that in a Rolls-Royce and not rusty fender Dec 2016 #2
At the rate workers get paid logosoco Dec 2016 #3

logosoco

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3. At the rate workers get paid
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:25 PM
Dec 2016

for many at the working class level, maybe they will soon need to make robot customers for their restaurants as well.

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