Democrats VS. Automation

I read an article titled, Democrats, Avoid the Robot Rabbit Hole published by Paul Krugman on Oct. 17, 2019. It was a very interesting reading, I was first expecting to disagree with Krugman, but later actually agreed with him. In the article, Krugman writes that Democrats, Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders specifically, have been avoiding the topic of automation. Automation for those who don’t know is the use of automatic equipment in a system to manufacture goods or simply to get work done. 
Krugman’s intended audience must be other republicans. The audience must also be business oriented or the working class, due to the topic being about how automation can affect the employment of US citizens. The person reading the article must be interested in what the future may look like. I believe that Krugman’s logic is that automation is not a matter to worry about and that the fact that a candidate Andrew Yang based his campaign on automation is “inadequate”. 
The argument Krugman is trying to express is that automation is not a problem that Americans should worry about due to there being enough work for everyone. Erin Burnett is one of the moderators for CNN and he argues that “'about a quarter of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in just the next 10 years'". Krugman disqualifies his argument by saying “It finds that a quarter of U.S. jobs will face high exposure to automation over the next several decades.” this indicates that the growth of unemployment is slow and will take a long time to occur. Krugman also talks about how Andrew Yang argues that, “automation is destroying jobs en masse and that the answer is to give everyone a stipend” and how Yang is wrong to believe that. Krugman argues that Yang is fighting for a solution to an imaginary problem, indicating that automation is nothing to worry about. 

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