the wipe out of mass white collar jobs...disguised inside some ivy crowned gibberish

"This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. "

" Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture.."

see that word "nuance "struggle rangers
   and put your neurons into algorithmic  lockdown

"  the share of “middle-skill” jobs
 – artisans –
        declined "

while

" high-skill”
 – white collar, non-production workers –
and “low-skill”
 – operatives and laborers -
                       increased. "

nuance ?
sounds like what we knew all along

but soft....


 "De-skilling did not occur in the aggregate economy"

" the aggregate shares of low skill jobs decreased, middle skill jobs remained steady, and
white collar jobs  expanded from 1850 to the early twentieth century."

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comes the reckoning :

"   The pattern of monotonic skill upgrading continued through much of the twentieth century until the recent “polarization” of labor demand since the late 1980s."

white collar jobs clobbered by automation ?
ending the long era when
"  ... the demand for white collar  workers
grew more rapidly than the supply starting well before the Civil War."

moral of tale ?

an old one


eventually they come for you too