Tucker Carlson has been doing a series about men in his show and how economic forces in America have pushed them down for decades with destructive social effects. He does a good job of describing the causes, specifically noting immigration, automation and the competition of cheap foreign manufacturing. The best thing about his essay is describing the real human cost of these policies causing job loss or decreased wages which in turn lead to symptoms like drug abuse, less family formation and more divorce.

Washington sees many of these globalist changes as great successes because they bring less expensive consumer goods. But the suits in the capitol city overlook the costs to citizens which were entirely foreseeable.

Tucker observed that “truck driver . . . is the most common job in the majority of states” as illustrated in the map below. That’s over three million driving jobs that are on the chopping block of “progress.”

It’s certainly realistic to discuss the human cost of globalization and now automation since it so rarely happens. It would be useful to mention that automation is just getting started and is predicted to displace millions of jobs over the next couple decades. We really need a national discussion about that coming disaster.

At the minimum, America should end immigration as a remnant of a fading economic system no longer needed (if it ever was) because automation is coming on to do the low-skilled jobs performed by foreigners who work cheap. The smart machines are cheaper.

Plus, we have plenty of sober warnings from experts about the extent of automation’s future job displacement:

Oxford researchers forecast in 2013 that nearly half of American jobs were vulnerable to machine or software replacement within 20 years. Rice University computer scientist Moshe Vardi believes that in 30 years humans will become largely obsolete, and world joblessness will reach 50 percent. The Gartner tech advising company believes that one-third of jobs will be done by machines by 2025. The consultancy firm PwC published a report last year that forecast robots could take 38 percent of US jobs by 2030. Last November the McKinsey Global Institute reported that automation “could displace up to 800 million workers — 30 percent of the global workforce — by 2030.” Forrester Research estimates that robots and artificial intelligence could eliminate nearly 25 million jobs in the United States over the next decade, but it should create nearly 15 million positions, resulting in a loss of 10 million US jobs.

Here’s Tucker’s essay:

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