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Robots have taken over many factory jobs.
Now computers are taking away many jobs that used to need the human touch.
An online learning company, EdX, has reportedly found a way to mark students' work by computer.
End of the US nursery rhyme economy
Human robots at Amazon. www.dailymail.co.uk
Times are changing.
The USA has:
Only 157,000 bakers
But it has 202,000 sports coaches
And 80,000 substance-abuse counsellors.
The USA has more people working in social assistance and healthcare than in retail (shops)
End of the US nursery rhyme economy / US jobs: retail of woe
US has gained 387,000 managerial positions and lost about 2m clerical ones.
www.npr.org
There are jobs to replace those that computers have wiped out.
For example in food preparation, which is low paid, or in the installation of solar panels.
Jonathan Chait of New York magazine sees demographic change and cultural shifts affecting the political parties in the USA.
"The Republican party is now the party ... of meter-readers made redundant by the 'smart grid'...
The Democrats have become the party of solar panel installers.
"It is, in short, the party of globalisation's losers."
End of the US nursery rhyme economy
Times are changing.
The USA has:
Only 157,000 bakers
But it has 202,000 sports coaches
And 80,000 substance-abuse counsellors.
The USA has more people working in social assistance and healthcare than in retail (shops)
End of the US nursery rhyme economy / US jobs: retail of woe
US has gained 387,000 managerial positions and lost about 2m clerical ones.
www.npr.orgThere are jobs to replace those that computers have wiped out.
For example in food preparation, which is low paid, or in the installation of solar panels.
Jonathan Chait of New York magazine sees demographic change and cultural shifts affecting the political parties in the USA.
"The Republican party is now the party ... of meter-readers made redundant by the 'smart grid'...
The Democrats have become the party of solar panel installers.
"It is, in short, the party of globalisation's losers."
End of the US nursery rhyme economy
South Korea. www.croptocuisine.org
South Korea may have the answer.
South Korea has protected its industries from foreign competition.
South Korea may have the answer.
South Korea has protected its industries from foreign competition.
At the same time it has allowed competition, within the country.
It has protected its small farms.
Reap what you sow
It has protected its small farms.
Reap what you sow
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