Labor Shortage in Detroit and Michigan Driving Wages Higher?

[emu steve]

I see computer programming as automation of manual tasks. E.g., I used to do statistics by hand which was cruel. Then programming languages/packages for example, SAS, SPSS, essentially 'automated' the process. Or the Lotus / Excel spreadsheets of the 1990s.

When I first got into computer programming a lot of the tasks were 'number crunching' and 'order entry.' A travel agent or ourselves booking a flight is automating what was once was a manual operation [[I hate to think what happened in 1960 when John Q. Public needed a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles).

So we've automated the assembly lines, 'automated' number crunching and order entry, etc. etc.

We started with machines assisting humans, then added computers and then added robots...

All of which have made humans much, much more productive.

I wish someone could answer this question: Of the jobs lost say in manufacturing what percentage were because of globalization? What percentage because of technological advances and increasing productivity? [[pls can the two numbers add up to 100%).