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J. D. Vance: “If you go back to the 1970s when the automatic teller…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Vice President J.D. Vance and Senator John Hoeven Discuss Major Legislative Victory in North Dakota

Published | Video Starts at 12:14

So we'll take this as the last question because we're going to hit the road here. And I appreciate you guys. Look, I'm fundamentally opt about this stuff. If you go back to the 1970s when the automatic teller machine was created, a lot of people said it was going to destroy bank teller jobs. We actually have more people working as bank tellers. They're just doing something slightly different. They're more productive, they're earning higher wages. I think if you look at the whole history of the American economy. (12:14–12:24)

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Asserts that despite predictions, more people work as bank tellers now than when ATMs were introduced.

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