TriCounty Chamber hears economic forecast

by: David A. Kostival, from The Reading Eagle

“Afshar spoke to the chamber as part of its annual economic forecast membership breakfast Thursday morning at the SunnyBrook ballroom in Lower Pottsgrove Township.”

“Technology is replacing jobs,” he said. ….. Many of these jobs have not gone to China; they have simply disappeared and will continue to do so as we continue to get into heavy automation,” Afshar said. “People say we don’t build anything anymore, but the truth is we produce twice as much as we did in the 1970s. We just don’t use as many people to do so.”

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