Sentences with phrase «technology displacing workers»

As you know, there have been many times in the past where people panicked over technology displacing workers, starting with the Luddites in the 19th century.

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Uber uses technology to displace low - skilled workers who may have little access to other jobs, and as a result makes labor (and ultimately the cost of a ride) cheaper.

Technology's steady march has catalyzed vigorous debates about how much innovation may be displacing — and perhaps even dooming — traditional workers.

The company built a business model based on using technology to displace low - skilled workers in an industry that many people have little love for.

«I do think there is a lot of evidence to suggest that information technology is playing a large role in that,» Ford said about displacing workers.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

and Jack Reed (D - R.I.) have asked the Government Accountability Office to look into autonomous truck technology and its potential to displace workers.

Perhaps, Senator, you missed the Senate testimony by Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.:» [S] killed immigrants... can displace U.S. workers, as has happened in the technology / engineering sector,» she said.

Having said that, technology does displace some workers, whose long - term earnings are reduced, and it has reduced demand for unskilled workers in the US more broadly.

What of all the workers that have clearly been displaced by this fruit processing technology?