Posted on 11/14/2011 5:04:36 PM PST by gitmo
A dispatcher can quickly do the tasks that would require 5-10 years experience to perform by using well-designed dispatching software. Likewise, someone who is not a craftsman can do the work on an assembly line that formerly took an experienced metalworker or woodworker.
Just sayin'
Technology eliminates/ makes the tedious chores easier and faster, freeing folks up to THINK.
...and creates tedious software writing chores.
Amazing how these people will make these stupid claims as they play iphones, laptops, and HDTVs.
Technology (automobiles) eliminated buggy whip manufacturers and all of the jobs employed in that industry.
Just saying.
I always say I’m a good example of someone who would not have my job without technology. I’m a bookkeeper and I would NEVER have been able to to do my job before the invention of the adding machine. And yes, I’m old enough so that I did use those for a while. And I even did work at one place with just a mechanical cash register, no adding just ringing. (However I got fired from that job, but not, iirc, for bad cash registering!)
However, this did not create a job, bookkeepers have been around almost forever, but it did enable me to do it for a living. And I’m pretty good at it, I just can’t do arithmetic very well without a machine.
Hubby laughs at me, but I tell him the job is BOOK-KEEPER, not mathematician.
We have the ability to enter a “post-capitalist” society (if we can get Dumb0 and his crony-socialists out of the way). By “post-capitalist” I don’t mean socialist, I mean the need for massive amounts of capital to start a business is withering away.
Anybody can start an online business today from home for under a few hundred dollars. Of course, if each of us has our own online business it would be like each of us raising and bartering our own vegetables - we’ll each earn a living and afford the varied diet that bartering provides, but none of us will get “rich” (there will still be the “winner-take-all” rich - actors, musicians, etc - but even then, in the age of YouTube and the proliferation of media outlets, the ability of musical artists in this day and age to get as rich as Led Zep once did (who had there own 727 I think it was) is greatly diminished).
Okay, let's address the THINKERS in central Africa, the upper Amazon, or xxxxistan.... They all have plenty of time to contemplate their next move....
Like what am I gonna do for tomorrow's meal....
Your response was pure B/S.
This article is fretting for the people who are unwilling, or unable, to do that.
both.
And based on November, 2008 there are a lot of people unwilling to think.
And based on November, 2008 there are a lot of people unwilling to think.
And I bet they are still getting unemployment compensation because of the buggy whip union! lol
I still contend that they ONLY way to create jobs is to create the MAXIMUM amount of productive output with the MINIMUM of jobs.
Do tractors destroy or create jobs?
and these "experts" couldn't foresee Siri in the Iphone, yet they can predict the future for the entire world economy???
“If we were all subsistence level farmers, there would be almost no unemployment.”
Back to the future.
Damn that Jethro Tull and his improved seed drill!
I hope we will all be able to at least use a plow and a mule to do our farming.
If we actually enforced immigration law and deported all the illegals we would have almost no unemployment either so all the blame is not on technology.
....and creates tedious tidying up after ourselves now that mistakes can be promulgated at a prodigious rate.
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