Why American Workers Need to Be Protected From Automation

They call it the "lights out factory." A manufacturing complex run by the Japanese company FANUC, it spans 22 facilities producing 23,000 computer parts each month for companies like Tesla and Apple. The plant runs close to 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Bill de Blasio is the mayor of New York City and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The complex seems to run so smoothly, it might take a moment to realize that something's missing: human workers. FANUC's factory is 100 percent automated, with robots going "unsupervised" by a human for as many as 30 days at a time.