SIMON BARBER: If Trump succeeds in bringing back jobs, it will be for robots
High-skilled workers who can operate AI processes will benefit, while the low-skilled will be jobless
18 July 2019 - 06:03
“Tariffs are … most importantly a powerful way to get companies to come to the USA and to get companies that have left us for other lands to COME BACK HOME,” President Donald Trump tweeted last Friday (his caps).
The facts have yet to bear him out, but if they do, it is unlikely to be in ways that reopen the shuttered mills of the rust belt or provide much succour for his base...
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