The other day I foun d myself at a conference discussing decreasing wages an d increasing inequality. One thing that struck me was how many of the participants just assume d that robots are a big part of the problem - that machines are 1 the goo d jobs, or even jobs in general.An ...
Since the federal government had been holding down wages for three decades, postal workers were simply not making enough money to make ends meet (a little more than two dollars an hour, as I remember.) I already had a couple of children when I came to work at the Post Office, even ...