We can always support jobs by protecting inefficiencies, such as import protection or prohibiting labor-saving technology.

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Ironically, such productivity gains that improve the lot of workers are based on acceptance of new technology, including labor-saving technology.

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Think of all the farm jobs lost to tractors and other farm equipment, and all the factory jobs lost to labor-saving technology, equipment, and computers.

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In industry after industry when minimum prices are set on labor either capital ends up getting substituted through investment in labor-saving technology or low-skill jobs move overseas.

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Freer trade in that regard is similar to labor-saving technology.

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Labor-saving inventions, technology, business processes, and trade all increase productivity output per hour worked and form the basis for higher wages as well as higher profits and the basis for our growing standard of living.

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Governments can save jobs by discouraging new technology or outlawing labor-saving devices like automatic elevators and automated telephone service.

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New technology will be introduced along with labor-saving capital investment, and skilled workers will tend to replace unskilled workers.

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