Not so long ago, authors were churning out dire books on how The Rise Of The Robots would lead to The Jobless Future, amid authoritative forecasts that half of all jobs in the United States would be at risk from automation starting right about now.
Recent employment reports, however, raise a different threat: not whether robots will replace human labour, but whether they will get here fast enough to save the world economy from worker shortages.
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