While I would agree with you that technology has impacted the job marke a great deal, I have to say that outsourcing still impacts it with real jobs disappearing quickly. For example, in the county seat of my county there was a manufacturing plant...on a small scale mind you and I'm not even sure what they manufactured as I was a kid at the time. In the late 80's the plant moved all operations to Mexico. In a town of about 20,000 people serving a county or perhaps two-county area with jobs, those 600 or so jobs gone pretty much overnight, that was a huge blow to local job availability. Now in Ft. Smith, Whirlpool has been consistently downsizing in recent years, and now are shutting the doors of that factory permanently to move operations overseas...or at least out of the United States. Those couple of thousand jobs are going to greatly impact families in that area. Maybe I am in a position to see outsourcing more. I train kids to get jobs in robotics, programming and such that are often used to automate factories, but not everyone is suited to learn to do those sorts of jobs. There have to be some "ditch-digging" jobs available in this country as well as in Mexico, China or wherever. I suppose that is why everytime I see a factory moved out of the country I just get sick.
