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I don't think rejecting automation is the way forward here for anyone.

There's still jobs with automation, it's not zero sum.

And the new jobs that are created are more fun too.

The really bad jobs would go away though. That much is true.

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“We will never allow automation to come into our union and try to put us out of work as long as I’m alive.” [1]

Ok, so that's not very productive.

> Under the current contract, which expired on Monday, longshoremen earn up to $39 an hour, but the ILA is pushing for that to rise to $69 an hour over the next six years.

Ok, that might actually be reasonable; but only with automation.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20241001110350/https://www.teleg...

> what it portrays is bragging, bragging about the reality that China has automated ports and America mostly does not

But the video doesn’t mention the United States at all. Why assume that a China boasts implies a US knock?

It does. It specifically says the throughput of the port in the video is more than the combined throughput of all ports in the United States.

Sorry, the video does not mention the United Sates at all. The author (cremieux?), says these lines in his article:

> bragging about the reality that China has automated ports and America mostly does not.

> It should be depressing for Americans that a single Chinese port can outmatch the throughput of almost all American ports combined

My original point stands. The video itself does not mention the United States; it is just praising a technological innovation in China. The author is adding his own spin that the video is in fact knocking on the U.S.

0:39 in the video is where it says United States

That being said, I agree its criticism of the US is oblique at best and it is more focused on China.

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