NotEliTanenbaum
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Also I'd like to point out that in the last 50 years, far more American jobs have been "lost" to robots than to Chinese or Indians or Mexicans or anyone else. Yet there aren't many luddites arguing that we should ban technological progress and go back to 1950s-style assembly lines. Society has been perfectly willing to trade a few jobs in unproductive sectors, in exchange for cheaper products and more jobs in productive sectors. The fact that people are OK with making this trade when the new worker is a robot, but not when it's a Chinese person, is both cruel and xenophobic.
AMEN.
Also, I recommend Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman for those of you who haven't read it, because it's a great book on trade. Although it's a bit dated (it was written in the late 90s) it's still relevant.
Anyways, for my opinion on this issue, just check out my sig and you'll get the idea.