Comments on: Lansing and General Motors https://michiganfuture.org/2014/03/lansing-general-motors/ A Catalyst for Prosperity Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lou Glazer https://michiganfuture.org/2014/03/lansing-general-motors/#comment-3247 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:27:06 +0000 https://www.michiganfuture.org/?p=5420#comment-3247 In reply to Don.

For that to happen it would take a lot more automation of factory work than seems feasible in the near future. But who knows. Machines keep getting smarter. Either way there are going to continue to be fewer and fewer factory jobs. And the jobs that require largely muscle work are going to pay less and less. Not a strategy for a mass middle class.

]]> By: Don https://michiganfuture.org/2014/03/lansing-general-motors/#comment-3246 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:40:47 +0000 https://www.michiganfuture.org/?p=5420#comment-3246 At the end of the post, you mentioned that Michigan should continue to seek to be the global center for automobile manufacturing, especiall the knowledge based sectors of the industry. Do you foresee a time when manufacturing itself will become a knowledge based job, requiring maost factory workers to have post secondary education in technology or engineering etc?

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