As demand for crowdsourcing labor grows and technology improves, Mr. Robertson adds, workers can now make the equivalent of full-time annual wages from hundreds of temporary jobs.
And most iPhones and iPads are made in China, which means they have both technology and labor force to achieve that goal, and so on and so forth.
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Economic growth has many inputs, not least the drivers of labor, capital, and technology.
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.
While office technology saves time and labor, we're now very inactive because of all those office technologies that literally push our virtual paper for us, and this has made us more injury prone than ever before.
The biggest names in the business have their brightest engineers rolling out ways to unify the great hardware hodgepodge, rationalize wasteful resources and automate the labor-intensive side of technology.
But this kind of protectionist thinking is myopic and flawed: the innovation and opening of new markets the TPP is designed to spur would lead to exactly the type of jobs that labor craves, namely high-paying manufacturing and technology related jobs.
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"It is not helpful for a retailer or brand to simply publish a list of factories they no longer work with, " said Richard Locke, a professor of political science and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is working on several projects related to globalization and labor standards.
Later Gandhi took steps to ensure such glorious scarcity: His economic program, such as it was, consisted of de-industrialization, withdrawing from technology and substituting the most inefficient labor methods.
Preferences and technology are constantly shifting the demand for labor in various industries and in different geographies.
The crucial lesson to be learned is that our economic growth depends on a combination of technology change and the expansion of the labor force.
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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.
The U.S. has a long history of creating and adopting technology to take the place of human labor.
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"It's been a very, very serious and critical situation, " said John David, a West Virginia University Institute of Technology professor and volunteer with the South Appalachian Labor School who has been working in Fayette County.
Governments can save jobs by discouraging new technology or outlawing labor-saving devices like automatic elevators and automated telephone service.
Standing behind him as he made the remarks were the leaders of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the American Hospital Association and the Service Employees International Union--trade groups representing medical technology companies, doctors, pharmaceuticals, hospitals and labor.
Technology has allowed for wonderful efficiencies in the use of labor and materials and lets us do great things.
New technology will be introduced along with labor-saving capital investment, and skilled workers will tend to replace unskilled workers.
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"The business community and technology sector are running up against a shortage of highly skilled labor, and we need more H-1B visas, " said Brad Smith, general counsel of Microsoft.
Making the switch from human labor to automation only makes sense when the cost (and benefits) of the technology is equal to or more than the cost of a worker.
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Would-be CEOs have access to technology and research, potential pots of funding, and cheap student labor.
Also, by cutting tax rates on labor and capital, Reagan freed up venture capital that led to the development of the technology that now drives the U.S. economy.
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If the winner allocates federal money for job training programs, then this book makes a compelling argument that workers need to be taught how to use and understand mobile technology in order to be competitive in an increasingly cutthroat labor market.
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Many Japanese SMEs have the technology and knowledge base, yet are capital-poor with exorbitantly high labor and materials operations costs relative to Chinese firms.
Competing based on labor costs is not an option, so they compete by having fewer employees and more advanced technology in order to be more productive than their global competitors.
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Science and technology are the bedrock of the global economy, and according to business and labor statistics, employment in these areas will increase about 70% faster than the rate for all occupations.
Liu was a vocal critic of a scandal-marred city payroll-technology project and has rapped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for not reaching new labor agreements with many unionized city employees whose contracts have expired.
We can have some people who are really willing to work hard, but if the technology is coming from overseas and all we're competing for is just our labor, then over time those countries will get richer, our countries will get poorer.
Recently, the technology giant's own annual audits have found instances of underage labor, excessive working hours and inadequate safety.
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