As I sit here contemplating my life's choices and accepting that I am working in more than one job, I wonder if increasing technology is my friend or foe.

I get that ChatGpt can be helpful in certain situations, and automating tasks is supposed to improve efficiency, does it mean that with these advancements, more people will have to work more than one job to just pay the bills?

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I look at technological advancements the same as I do geopolitics. Is China a friend of foe? It takes American jobs because the labor costs are so much less. However, American consumers get all these products -- electronics to clothing -- for much less. True, its almost a disposable product mentality. We can buy two or three China-made products for what we would pay for a product made just outside of the city where we live. Fixing that problem is too complicated to address in a short forum chain. It would involve a "make it here to sell it here" policy at the federal level with government controls on what those industries could charge for their products. If we did that, every U.S. company would become a "non-profit organization."

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I agree - made in the USA would be my first choice - quality over quantity. My concern still lies with companies relying more heavily on advancing technology, rather than Joe Lunchbucket making the widgets. Essentially, computers are taking over the work previously completed by humans.

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