Like Wendy's is doing?
Then we go on Obama-care and SS disability of course, like the others.
Posted on 08/18/2015 5:41:12 AM PDT by Salgak
How many displaced low skilled workers would there actually be without our millions of illegals?
Childcare, elder care and servants become very cheap and much more popular, because of the low price and even moral imperative to employ others if you can afford to do so.
All the skilled trades that are too complex to be automated will become more popular as a job choice, because you can’t outsource your wiring or plumbing repair to a guy in India or have it done by someone who just walked across the border.
We’ll see a lot more civic works projects to repair buildings, re-plant hills and so forth to keep people busy.
it will just be an accelerator to the path we’re on now where labor participation rate will continue to drop. eventually almost no one will work, labor costs will be zero, corporations will pay incredibly high tax rates rather than labor costs but the money will find its way to the same people (now out of work). those payments from the gubmint will be used by consumers to pay for goods and keep the cycle going. so in a nut shell we will all just be welfare queens eventually.
Democrats, at least until the solidify their power to the point they no longer bother with elections.
i applaud your hopefulness but look around. do you see the millions and millions of people living on welfare now because their skills are below minimal needs all of a sudden becoming entrepeneurs and creating new industries? once you dont need burger flippers any longer the great majority of people will be surplus to the needs of the state and will just sit around waiting for their check like they do now. only the scale of the problem will be even larger.
but i hope youre right
Look up Royal Meeker.
We add to the ranks of the poorly educated free-sh*t army who don’t work, don’t need to work, and don’t want to work.
Its all paid for by Federal Reserve money printing and more government debt.
The robots will use them for target practice.
For a much longer answer:
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
hook and gut a fish to eat?
That reminds me of when my youngest daughter had a friend “in need” who needed a place to stay for a few days. I had just come home from fishing and told her she had to clean the fish as payment for a place to stay. She said, “Ok. You’ll have to show me how though.” When I cut into the first fish she said, “Oh no. I can’t do that. I thought you meant wash them.”
-PJ
What happens... at some point War will happen, Man vs Machine!
And the winner will be????
Place your bets at the Market Machine because it will be screaming hot.
With the liberals doing everything in their power to emasculate and eliminate the military?
Like Wendy's is doing?
Then we go on Obama-care and SS disability of course, like the others.
“what do we do about the now-unemployed, and likely permanently unemployable?”
The government [elected by clueless idiot voters] will impose more socialism as a cure. Everything thing the government does is calculated to increase people’s dependence on them.
We set up conditions that encourage dependency which is IMHO shameful because we rob these people of the fulfillment that comes from striving. Its also not fair for those of us carrying them. As more people are unable to find work the system will fail and welfare will be necessarily tightened and work requirements, drug testing and perhaps even birth control as a prerequisite will come into play. I can dream anyway ...
Watch out for the rise of the Neo-Luddites!
amen brother. the system encourages and rewards the sloth
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