I like many of your suggestions, but the article itself is total BS. First, Uber drivers are replacing taxi drivers, who were never employees to begin with. So it's not a valid example. Second, the headline should read "As long as US sticks to current policies, the number of employees in the US will probably decrease".
This is happening because right now in the US, capital (large corporations, billionaires) controls the political process, and they've used it to massively jack up the size of the labor pool:
* Illegal immigration -> unskilled jobs.
* H1B & other visas -> skilled and semi-skilled jobs.
* Free trade with Asia -> manufacturing jobs.
* Outsourcing -> IT jobs.
* Normalizing 60-80 hour workweeks -> increases the labor pool by 1.5x - 2x.
Basically right now we have about 2-3 billion people competing for jobs in the US economy, which is sized for 320 million people. They (capital) want you to believe this is the "future", but in reality they just jacked up the labor pool by a huge amount.
Any worker who comes to the US leaves their home country, so the employment dynamic in those countries is quite different. And notice that the EU, whose economy is larger than the US, has avoided this dynamic.
This is happening because right now in the US, capital (large corporations, billionaires) controls the political process, and they've used it to massively jack up the size of the labor pool:
* Illegal immigration -> unskilled jobs.
* H1B & other visas -> skilled and semi-skilled jobs.
* Free trade with Asia -> manufacturing jobs.
* Outsourcing -> IT jobs.
* Normalizing 60-80 hour workweeks -> increases the labor pool by 1.5x - 2x.
Basically right now we have about 2-3 billion people competing for jobs in the US economy, which is sized for 320 million people. They (capital) want you to believe this is the "future", but in reality they just jacked up the labor pool by a huge amount.
Any worker who comes to the US leaves their home country, so the employment dynamic in those countries is quite different. And notice that the EU, whose economy is larger than the US, has avoided this dynamic.