I pointed this out in a thread a week or so back. The human race has been a victim of our own success. Our medicine got better so people started living longer and required more medicine to stay healthy until they pass.
Technology in the ag industry got so good that one guy can row crop sectionS by himself other than needing a few part time machine operators that don't need to really know what they're doing. Livestock production has almost all been consolidated into confinements where the water, food, climate are all controlled by a computer. Just need a couple low skilled workers to help load animals up in semis to be hauled off to the industrial packing company where all the jobs are low skilled (many migrant), low pay jobs. Diary farms with 20-80 head are all but gone unless they fill a niche (organic). The diary processors have all been consolidated into one big dairy to cover half the state. Prairie Farms sets the price. The big dairy around here has several thousand head from what I understand and the milking is all done with minimal human interaction.
Same goes with a lot of industry and manufacturing jobs. We've automated almost everything from welding to painting and even a lot of assembly. What used to take 10-20 (or more) people can now be done with one guy programming a computer. We've outsourced all the "low-skill" jobs we can to the far east and in the process taught them HOW to design, test, and manufacture what used to be durable goods. They quality coming from the east has improved greatly and a lot of the wealth that was created by technological advances went to CEOs and executives and to foreign nations.
I don't see it stopping until the worker in China gets paid the equivalent as the worker in Germany, US or anywhere else in the world. Every free trade agreement only decreases the value of the American worker and puts more money in the pockets of the wealthy oligarchs. They know just how much to spoon feed to keep from a revolution.
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