Ditch witch
The great futurist Robert Heinlein told us the world would always need dishwashers. If out of town, application to a restaurant for dishwashing job should give good results
Posted on 11/07/2014 4:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Thats not very nice
Don't assume that I haven't ...
...but seriously...
What happens to a society, that year after year,
the population increases, and the demand for labor decreases?
No more community organizers? Wouldn’t that be great.
You haven't heard of "sales 2.0"?
Means we don't need many salesmen anymore, because you can go online and correspond directly with people who bought what you're thinking of buying, so you can learn whether they're happy with the purchase and whether you should buy it, too.
And if you don't like that item, you can quickly locate other products of that type that people are happy to own without talking to a salesman.
I'm telling you, we are all screwed.
I don’t think a lot of products and services will be able to be sold that way.
And if everyone were working so inefficiently, we’d all be working 60 hours/week to earn enough to barely survive.
You're assuming enough people will still have jobs to afford to patronize real restaurants and keep them from going out of business.
I am not wanting to spend the evening talking (or yelling) into a smiling clown face with a microphone taped onto the mouth.
And I don't like getting tech support from a call center in India or telephoning a company and having to sort through an automated voice menu, either.
In a sensible society, the "extra" people provide goods and services that were not even dreamed of in previous years. As one example, my grocery store provides genuinely good ready to eat meals at a much lower price than restaurants and a much better flavor than packaged meals. Similarly, although I retired two years ago, I now provide consulting services that add a great deal of value for those who hire me. In the society that liberals are creating, those without a productive job whine that the workers are not providing what they demand as conveniently as the non-producers think they deserve to have their orders followed.
So you tell me how many hours we'll have to work a week when machines do all the work?
You want to buy a car?
You can go online and have more info about cars and prices then ever before in history.
The salesman, whom you used to turn to for such guidance, is reduced to an order taker.
Well it isn’t only technology.....it’s that people who have “served” the public are pretty fed up with how demanding and rude the public has become.
Having worked with the public for several years I’ve seen it change drastically. Rather than see you as a “help” they see you as their own personal “servant” they can use and abuse. Woman shoppers are the absolute worst today..not only rude and condescending to clerks but they are equally so to other customers.
I am leaving serving the public very soon for those reasons. Will be great going into work and not having to deal with them!
How many construction jobs have some guy sitting up in the excavator waiting for the guy in the hole with the shovel to move the rock away from whatever they are digging up? (Every one I have ever been on).
The average income has risen five fold (in real, dollars) in the past century. Most people today are working at different jobs than they would have back then. People have been wringing their hands about technological change, since the dawn of the industrial revolution — yet, here we are.
What’s happened in my work place is all employees except for management are now part-time. Work hours for each department are determined by the productivity of the entire department they are assigned to, not to individual sales volume ..which is dependent on who walks in the door ...so they really have no control over the customer traffic. If the sales aren’t there, neither are the working hours.
Additionally when hours are cut those who do work are required to carry the department and any other department that gets busy. It’s a nightmare when the pace picks up.
As long as you don't price them out of the market.
If you can pay them $10.00 an hour to dig ditches you will hire 5 ditch diggers because you don't need that many ditches.
If you have to pay them $50.00 an hour you will go to the equipment rental place and hire a man and machine for a hour or two to dig all the ditches you could ever need.
People automated because employees are expensive.
Ditch witch
The great futurist Robert Heinlein told us the world would always need dishwashers. If out of town, application to a restaurant for dishwashing job should give good results
They would call me and I would find them a real person to help them rather then funneling them into "voice tree hell".
There are certain places where they have made a major mistake in replacing people with automation.
That’s why I left out “electrical stuff”. It’s possible to make electronics cheap enough to make repair economically non-viable. Cars, HVAC, and elevators, not so much.
Man (and woman) shall not live by bread alone.
IMHO it comes down to the fundamentals of life. We have material needs, emotional needs, and most importantly we have spiritual needs. It is the search for meaning that ultimately drives us. We are not automatons, and the development of advanced technology is a product of our drive and our need to reach beyond ourselves. We will never ‘serve’ technology, or be supplanted by it, unless and until our technology becomes what we are.
That doesn’t mean we can’t or won’t create technology that endangers us. We have, and we will. Hopefully we will continue to be able to grow spiritually along with the growth of technology - such that we continue to have the ability and the vision to stay a step ahead of the dangers that some of our technological advances might bring.
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