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To: SoCal Pubbie

I believe some of the high tech jobs will still be doable - rote learned tasks - for people of average to low average intelligence. And I am all for jobs being created in industry for the low intel folk, lots of job descriptions include tasks that can be taken from a busy worker and given to people with Down syndrome or such, supervised and worthwhile.

You’d be surprised how seriously some in the intellectually disabled community take their jobs and how proud they are to do them.


60 posted on 08/04/2017 4:49:59 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: Yaelle

I would not be superset, because I know all about it. I know a guy who developed a new neck brace for paramedics that used Elwyn Industries years ago for such rote tasks, and I’ve read similar stories since. So I agree with you there.

I am not a Luddite nor am I necessarily fearful of the future in reguards to these developments. I do wonder however if the buggy whip analogy holds true anymore. In the past, new technologies shifted human labor from one individual another. Companies like Boston robotics I believe it is, I developing android type robots that will replace manual workers. And that scenario, only highly educated, very intelligent workers will find jobs and probably fewer than today.

I believe that within the next 100 to 200 years the overall population of the earth will begin to shrink dramatically. I could see a future with half the number of people on the planet that there are today. What that means for the economies of the future I don’t know.


63 posted on 08/04/2017 7:29:49 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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