all jobs are at risk,xa high end, attorneys, for example, but it s the remaining low skilled jobs that are most likely to disappear. professional driving, for example, taxis, trucks, delivery vehicles, 5 million americans now do that as a living to support families on those wages. self-driving cars could put them all out of work very soon. not just them. store clerks, waiters, cooks, they are in imminent danger, too. just about any repetitive job is at risk of going away. automation is accelerating, this is real.to it s going to have a really unimaginable effect on what do for a living and on american society itself. our country s low skilled workers already live in a pretty precarious spot. their wages and benefits stagnated for decades. millions of them are not really workers at all but get by on disability payments or other government programs. some don t even survive. they are overdosing and committing suicide as steadily higher rates, as you know.
especially a developed country like the united states or northern europe. tucker: there are lots of arguments for mass, lowe wage immigration and some of them are perfectly reasonable. there is a moral argument if we could help people, we should. i don t think that s crazy.i i don t see the economic argument for it under the circumstances that you just described. it is supply and demand. if you increase the supply of low skilled labor, you increase the demand for good, blue-collar jobs. the problem is, there are fewer blue collar jobs already for the american working class. another way to think about, thistt we paid more attention with the advent of donald trump, we paid more attention to the white working class in america, belatedly. a way to think about this, even if you are not particularly sympathetic to their plight, they are like the canary in the coal mine. in other words, as you just alluded, it s going to start what s happened tost them and black blue collar workers as w
first partner says sean spicer. i thought i married well 10 plus years ago but i didn t know how well until today. my wife, jennifer newsom, our first partner. thank you, jen. tucker: [laughs] that was impressive. that was far more impressive than gavinmp newsome. if the wind blows, he wactually picks up and floats away.aw don t distract me, tucker. tucker: will pay for that later in the show. question two, in a tense backne and forth at the white house this week, kellyanne conway called a cable news reporter a smart ass.. who was that reporter? jim acosta. tucker: that s how you pronounce it, acosta? was it jim acosta? i almost fell off my chair, okay. kellyanne conway owning jim acosta. jim, make sure that goes viral. by the way, this is why i m one of the only people around here who even gives you the time of day. and let me just get back in your face because you are such a smart ass most of the time and i know you want this to go viral. a lot of these people don t
it s with, you know, koch. two ends of both parties that want to increase immigration and increase the supply of low scale labor. this issue transcends, you can increase the supply of high-skilled labor. you can give an increasing emphasis to immigrants who bring college education. tucker: right. that s not what we re doing. 50% of the people we are admitting don t have more than a high school degree and many have less. nothing against them but that s not the point. david, thank you very much. great to see you. thank you. tucker: austan goolsbee as an economic professor at the university of chicago and he joins us tonight. professor, great to see you. yeah, thank you for having me back, tucker. tucker: so the position of both parties really and it is both parties, it s not just the democrats, is that yeah, we have seen automation before and these people will somehow new jobs will appear and vethese people take it and everything will be fine. given that almost no economics pro
photobombing by fiji water. how are you feeling, sean? scared. tucker: you have been in this position before. i have. tucker: you were on the wrestling team in high school. t.you know the feeling of gettig on your back and getting their reserve surgeon strength and winning. we ll see if you still have it. question four. a big electronics conference in las vegas has unveiled a lot of interesting new gadgets. one of them is a rolling suitcase, also known as rolling luggage. what is so special about this rolling suitcase? it will follow you. tucker: it will follow you? really? yeah, you don t have to it s hands-free. tucker: okay. is that true? is lauren right about the suitcase? carry on luggage that you do not have to pull through the airport. the bag will follow you. yeah. i want that. i want that very much. it will alert you if someone tries to steal it. it s not fool proof, as that lady just found out. the suitcasefo will be available on amazon in the next cou