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To: bart13 who wrote (132074)	3/14/2017 4:17:15 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217671

With increasing used of robots among smaller manufacturing businesses productivity gains are going to be even larger than the productivity gains major industry has achieved through outsourcing the most labor intensive part of production. Although there will be fewer manufacturing jobs created, they'll require more education but pay better. One of my Uncles owned a food packaging business in Cincinnati for the individual portion market. Faced with a demand for higher wages in 1981, even 36 years ago he discovered dumb robot makers allowed him to economically automate much of their production allowing him to lay-off about 60% of his workforce, providing the requested wage increase to the remaining workers In 1981 warehouse robots needed guide wires in the floor and required all racking systems to be identical, and production automation needed a very alert supervisor to catch problems in time, but that was an entirely different era. Automation is now far more self-reliant and capable than human operators.