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Why American Workers Need to Be Protected From Automation

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to protect blue-collar jobs by issuing a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and create a federal agency to oversee automation.

My plan wouldn’t accept a post-work future. Instead, it would hasten a work-filled future—one where we use technological advancement to bridge the gap between our current workforce at risk of being made redundant by automation and the resilient union workforce we need. A “robot tax” will help us create stable, good-paying middle-class jobs for generations to come.

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