tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post4734598046908590394..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: What's the price of retail jobs?Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-13621032489536097352017-05-22T20:48:55.250-07:002017-05-22T20:48:55.250-07:00Nope, the job creation is nowhere at the same rate...Nope, the job creation is nowhere at the same rate of job destruction. Have you seen, for instance, the videos of the Kiva robots that Amazon uses in its warehouses?<br /><br />From that Economist piece:<br />"At its current pace, by July 2018 retailing will have shed three times as many jobs as Amazon is due to create. ...<br />Couriers need less training to ferry goods to customers’ doors. Their ranks have grown to 655,000 workers last year. But that is a tiny sliver of the total retailing workforce. Retailing workers might switch to the companies that are taking over empty stores, including restaurants, beauty salons and health clinics. But it is as improbable that such firms will replace all of America’s boarded-up shops as that they will offer jobs to every former shop worker, particularly those without training"<br /><br />And even when those jobs are created, they are not always full-time, and don't pay well, .... but, the pussygrabber potus talks only about coal mining jobs! Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-8693538210567977212017-05-22T19:25:33.145-07:002017-05-22T19:25:33.145-07:00Yes automation is a far greater threat to jobs tha...Yes automation is a far greater threat to jobs than any other single factor, including offshoring or immigration. But then in today's America, who cares about facts.<br /><br />But you are overlooking the tremendous growth of jobs in the online retail industry. The trend towards online is actually a net addition of jobs, I believe. This is because when you go to a store and buy something, you are doing the "delivery" yourself. In the online world, somebody has to come and deliver it for you. However much you automate it, somebody has to do that job. For every store clerk's job lost, there's a job created in the call centre.<br /><br />So overall, it ain't so bad. (OK I used that abominable American expression !) Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com