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2013-1 In an essay entitled “Making It in America ” , the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, ” a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines. ” 在一篇名为 (entitled) 《成功（ make it ）在美国》的文章中，作者亚当·戴维森讲述 (relate) 了这样一个源自棉花出产国的笑话，笑话是关于现代纺织 (textile) 作坊 (mill) 已高度自动化 (automate) ：现如今，一家普通作坊里只有两名员工， “一个人和一条狗，人在作坊里是为 了喂狗，狗在作坊里是为了使人远离 (away from) 机器。” Davidson ’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers. 最近出现了很多 (a number of) 类似戴维森所写的文章，它们都表明了这样一种看法 (make a point) ：之所以失业人数 (unemployment) 居高难下 (stubbornly high)和中产阶级 (middle-class) 收入 (income) 持续下降，原因是全球化与信息技术革命已经取得了诸多进步，它们使得机器 和国外员工在取代 (replace .. with) 本国劳动力 (labor) 方面比以往任何时候都要迅速。 In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won ’t earn you what it used to. It can so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment. 以往，具有一般技术、从事一般工作的员工可以赚得 (earn) 普