/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3764877
>Certainly didn't have anything to do with computers and automation and the internet industrial revolution or anything. It's cause the dang Mexicans!

Robots and computers were employed by automakers since the 70s.

If that many employees simply weren't needed because of automation more employees wouldn't be pursued and production facilities wouldn't be being built elsewhere, especially in places where the products would have to be transported great distances to the only people on this side of the hemisphere who'd be able to afford to buy them.

Once again, you're completely wrong and this time you're even holding two contradictory opinions about the same subject.

>Don't blame retarded economic policy

NAFTA and other "free trade agreements" with countries with weak currencies is the retarded economic policy

>Blame Mexico for having poor people willing to make shit for cheap!

You mean how American wages stagnated for decades overall but, completely coincidentally according to people like you, China's wages and Mexico's wages are rising exponentially during that exact same timeframe as automakers and other manufacturers compete for the labor that "automation" proponents claim aren't needed anymore to begin with?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicos-auto-production-boom-is-driving-up-labor-costs-1471201920

>We should be exploiting OUR poor people!

Auto workers in the US are well paid and have always been well paid even since the beginning.

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-took-off-100-years-ago-thanks-to-henry-ford

NAFTA made domestic production illogical and even unviable, the USMCA terms regarding worker wages are a good answer to that

>We're cutting taxes for corporations

Good

>A 2015 study found that US welfare increased by 0.08%

Wow, a completely ambiguous metric increased by a whole fraction of a fraction of a percent, and all we had to do was trade our auto industry? What a deal!