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To: Malone LaVeigh
Robots are poised to eliminate millions of jobs over the coming decades. We have to address the coming epidemic of "technological unemployment" if we're to avoid crippling levels of poverty and societal collapse.

You really don't need to read past this opening statement. His basic premise is incorrect. Technological change has been rampant for decades - in fact for centuries. It has not caused unemployment. It has simply provided more for less to the greater population. Even the unemployed seem to have iPhones in their pockets these days.

Only a true Marxist would take the position of the author of this article. The idea that there is not enough work to go around is simply nonsense. There is always work to be done and it would be done if not for the interference of governments at every level but particularly at the Federal level.

35 posted on 11/01/2014 7:39:46 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: InterceptPoint

What we’ll see is a rise of the skilled labor espoused by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame, because that’s what robots still cannot due but is absolutely required for civilization, from fixing toilets to building roads to welding metal. And that’s separate from the work that humans won’t want to unload to robots.

The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment


74 posted on 11/01/2014 4:32:00 PM PDT by tbw2
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