Manufacturing Connection: Misunderstood Manufacturing

Daan Assen


It is important to be open to new ideas for improving efficiency and not be stuck on old thinking or mythology about people losing work.

 

'Humans get strange ideas in their minds that cannot be shaken by facts and truth. Such as any new idea for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of manufacturing will cost people their jobs.

It is part of popular mythology that automation puts people out of work. This idea is so prevalent that even MIT economics professors run math to try to prove it. '

 

 

 



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Revisions

Original version: 18 July 2024
Written by: Evelyn DuJack
Reviewed by: Daan Assen

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