{"id":52757,"date":"2019-08-03T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T20:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=52757"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:46:06","slug":"how-robots-became-a-scapegoat-for-the-destruction-of-the-working-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-robots-became-a-scapegoat-for-the-destruction-of-the-working-class\/","title":{"rendered":"How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Three papers in the last year \u2014 one by the Aspen Institute&#8217;s Future of Work Initiative, one from the Roosevelt Institute and Duke University, and another in development from Roosevelt \u2014 suggest maybe the automation we&#8217;re seeing now is little different from the technological advances we&#8217;ve seen in every other era. Instead, the problems of inequality, stagnation, and unemployment (which get blamed on the robots) are due to policy choices and power dynamics in the U.S. economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/837759\/how-robots-became-scapegoat-destruction-working-class?fbclid=IwAR0AVYfZl6VaGU9Ga_-KFecM_QfIlOIvsuxDlNEhyLsGESZOq0jfLpNNHyk\">How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Links to the three papers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.org\/programs\/future-of-work\/automation\/\">one by the Aspen Institute&#8217;s Future of Work Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rooseveltinstitute.org\/dont-fear-robots\/\">one from the Roosevelt Institute and Duke University<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brishenrogers\/status\/1119254996934066177?s=21\">another in development<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three papers in the last year \u2014 one by the Aspen Institute&#8217;s Future of Work Initiative, one from the Roosevelt Institute and Duke University, and another in development from Roosevelt \u2014 suggest maybe the automation we&#8217;re seeing now is little different from the technological advances we&#8217;ve seen in every other era. Instead, the problems of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[2082],"tags":[781,343,847],"class_list":["post-52757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr-archive","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-labor","tag-the-future-of-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-dIV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52757","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=52757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52758,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52757\/revisions\/52758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}