David Autor Quotes
Workers are basically supervisors of machines.
Autor, David. "Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?" TED, Sept. 2016.
In the Great Recession, the industrial production had improved much by 2012—the 4th year of the Obama administration. However, technology and automation were displacing workers. At the time, the U. S. was producing the same amount as before the Great Recession only it was being done with 5 million fewer workers.
Today we would include the concept of programming to be included in “handling”.
The Ad Hoc Committee was loosely affiliated with the Students for a Democratic Society.
Technology has always displaced and replaced workers, but most industrial technological breakthroughs, in the long run, have created new jobs and better paid ones. What worried Gompers did not appear to materialize in his lifetime, but actually became and issue on the later years of the 20th century and the early 21st century where the computer the robot, and the sophisticated software began to replace workers at a faster rate than new opportunities were created. Gompers was one of the harbingers of things to come.
The implication is that we will be able to have cheaper products and cheaper services plus there will be less need for human efforts and few jobs needed and available.
This was the title of a science fiction play he wote in 1920. In it he coined the term "robot"
David H. Autor (born c. 1967) is an American economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also acts as co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative. Although Autor has contributed to a variety of fields in economics his research generally focuses on topics from labor economics.
