“We have to face why Donald Trump won the election of 2016. He won by the numbers because we'd automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states he needed to win and did win, and I have many friends who work in technology. And they know that what we did to the manufacturing jobs, we are now going to do to the retail jobs, the call center jobs, the fast food jobs, and most disastrously the trucking jobs in the days to come.”

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