—and for which our nation and its economy are all paying the price. While there is nothing wrong with technology as such and it has relieved the general workforce of many dangerous and difficult tasks, there can always be too much of a good thing. One of the characters asks Whipple who will be left to buy his products when the jobs have all been wiped out.
A combination of automation and job exporting has brought the manufacturing sector to near-ruin; Detroit, MI and Gary, IN probably are the most obvious examples of this. From being the world's provider we have become the world's customer, and there are enough vacant, crumbling factories across the nation to show that the quest for profits —as in Whipple's case— can bring even the leaders to the day when they must clean out their desks for the last time.
A combination of automation and job exporting has brought the manufacturing sector to near-ruin; Detroit, MI and Gary, IN probably are the most obvious examples of this. From being the world's provider we have become the world's customer, and there are enough vacant, crumbling factories across the nation to show that the quest for profits —as in Whipple's case— can bring even the leaders to the day when they must clean out their desks for the last time.