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The robots are coming. Let’s help the middle class get ready.
Are U.S. workers now threatened by a new and powerful form of automation that could displace tens of millions from their current jobs and dislodge them from the middle class? If so, are college-educated or professional workers at the upper range of the middle class as much threatened as those with fewer such credentials at the lower end? And can policy do much to protect the middle class status of either group?
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Well, if the western population at large has already chosen to prefer goods made by sustainable, green and humane production practices, surely the population at large may also choose to prefer products which use local human labour in their production or at least steer away from products which don't.