Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs
The “real” challenge technology presents isn’t that it replaces workers, but rather displaces them.
The distribution center, run by Quiet Logistics—a company that fills orders for sellers of premium-branded apparel, is featured in the 60 Minutes episode “Are Robots Hurting Job Growth?” In the segment, Steve Kroft poses the following question to Bruce Welty, the CEO of Quiet Logistics: “If you had to replace the robots with people, how many people would you have to hire?” Welty estimates that he would have to hire one and a half people for every robot, and that the robots are saving him a lot of money.
Why deal with H1-B visas, and illegals, when you don’t have to?
