Over at Atlantic Monthly Mike Konczal is bringing up a question we have brought up before as well – are robots eliminating an entire class of worker (unskilled labor)?

I highly recommend reading this article. He brings up excellent points about why we are not perceiving this as a threat (robots are dull, not sexy/visibly dangerous like in books and movies) and how even when the economy was roaring 8 years ago, unskilled jobs were still hard to find.

This is getting closer to what I called for yesterday – a true look at the effects of robotics on the workforce. This constant demagoguery of blaming off-shoring isn’t what we need to hear. We need a real, hard look at technology and how it is changing manufacturing.

I am not being doom and gloom here – I do believe more and better jobs can come from all of this, but before that can happen we must have full-awareness as to why the jobs are disappearing – then we can have a real plan.

We need to stop listening to Lou Dobbs and starting looking at actual facts in regard to the reasons why unskilled labor jobs are disappearing.