{"id":25569,"date":"2011-03-08T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-heres-the-thing-most-of-the-manual-labor\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:09:07","slug":"and-heres-the-thing-most-of-the-manual-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-heres-the-thing-most-of-the-manual-labor\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And here\u2019s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that\u2019s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren\u2019t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently carried out by well-educated, relatively well-paid workers may soon be computerized. Roombas are cute, but robot janitors are a long way off; computerized legal research and computer-aided medical diagnosis are already here. <br \/>\nAnd then there\u2019s globalization. Once, only manufacturing workers needed to worry about competition from overseas, but the combination of computers and telecommunications has made it possible to provide many services at long range. And research by my Princeton colleagues Alan Blinder and Alan Krueger suggests that high-wage jobs performed by highly educated workers are, if anything, more \u201coffshorable\u201d than jobs done by low-paid, less-educated workers. If they\u2019re right, growing international trade in services will further hollow out the U.S. job market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/07\/opinion\/07krugman.html?src=me&amp;ref=homepage\">Degrees and Dollars &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here\u2019s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that\u2019s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren\u2019t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}