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To: MrShoop

We already went through this with agriculture.

Most agricultural jobs went away form 1910 to 1950.

Now manufacturing jobs have been decreasing for 30 years already.

Service jobs have picked up. Lots of service jobs are good paying, like realtors or medical workers.

Making everything far more productive is a good problem to have.


12 posted on 02/18/2017 6:30:31 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: marktwain

“Service jobs have picked up. Lots of service jobs are good paying, like realtors or medical workers.”

“Making everything far more productive is a good problem to have.”

Many other service jobs pay pathetic wages. I think you are glossing over reality here. I would really hate to be a young person starting out in this economy. This is not really comparable to the industrial revolution or the agricultural revolution. Someone else posted a remark about jobs REPAIRING robots but what I expect is that robots will build robots and robots will repair robots. As far as medical jobs what reason is there to believe that robots cannot take over those jobs too? I am not suggesting that we can go back to the old days, I just don’t see how all this is necessarily going to lead to paradise on Earth.


15 posted on 02/18/2017 6:57:50 PM PST by RipSawyer (At the end of the day...the sun goes down.)
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To: marktwain

BTTT


16 posted on 02/18/2017 6:57:57 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!)
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To: marktwain
Making everything far more productive, using factories inside the USA, is a good problem to have.

Fixed it for you.

39 posted on 02/19/2017 5:25:45 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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