the boy isn't smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand...Idiots.
Automatic teller machine machines.
Please, stop giving them ideas.
The Luddites were a social movement in the nineteenth century who protested against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, often by destroying mechanized looms, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their way of life. It took its name from Ned Ludd.
In the early 21st century, a movement arose to destroy ATM machines. It’s name, Obamites, was taken from their leader, Barrack Obama.
I’m old enough to remember the long lines at the banks before ATMs became popular. Some people would even wait an hour or more in some lines. Heck, in one bank I used to work at, in New York, the lines, especially on Fridays and beginning of the months, had to be extended outside the bank doors. Technology isn’t just to replace people; it’s to make their lives easier. Besides, how many bank tellers are there that could hand you your money after regular working hours? People need to be asked questions detailing the pros and cons before they can answer them “intelligently” or at least an “informed response”.
No wonder we have the president, and senators, and representatives, and governors, etc. that we have.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of deep thinking going on in the average american’s life. So, who’s on top in American Idol these days. ;)
In the 1980’s, I worked for a while for a Shop n Save supermarket here in Pittsburgh and was made a member of the UFCW.
The union newsletters rallied constantly against checkout scanners, expressing the opinion that the price needed to be marked on every can of beans and every roll of toilet tissue and that scanners were going to hurt employment.
Dihydrogen monoxide: it's a chemical so therefore it's bad for you.
Elections have consequences.
The Prez has a great point —what about the treacherous COTTON GIN, hmmmm..? Think of the would-be, happy JobFul people out there in the fields, faces upturned to the sun, weilding machetes, “daylight come and me wanna go home..!”
Hmmm...?!
E-media, harumph..! DrudgeReport, ineed..!! All I see now are the crying paperboys, bicyles RUSTING..! JOBLESS...!
It’s all a mess..!
And what of powerplants, and dastardly solar cells..?! Why not the thrill of coming home black coal-faced, after an honest day of swinging a pickaxe underground for anthracite..?
KEEP HOPE ALIVE..!!!
It is not the ATM putting people out of work, it is that green crap that comes out of the ATM. And DC is 100 % responsible for destroying that product.
I was talking about this last night with my wife. Before ATMs I remember when I got my paycheck I went to the bank and deposited it less what cash I figured I needed for the week. When I bought gas I paid cash. I bought beer with cash. Lots of stuff was bought with cash.
Now my paycheck is electronically deposited into my account. And I buy most everything with a debit card. I pull up to the gas tank and swipe my card, punch in my PIN and the money is immediately taken from my account and put in the store’s account. When the store buys gasoline to replace what I just purchased it goes from the store’s account to the wholesaler’s account. And not one paper dollar has changed hands.
Where did all the cash go? I don’t even see armoured cars much anymore.
How about a towel boy who gives you a towel and some TP when you go to the bathroom. I am sure Dear Leader favors this ! That would make me very uncomfortable especially when needing to do a #2 with someone in there all the time !
Concerning ATM’s, when I hit the job market in 1990, my first job, I worked a strict 8 to 5 job, no direct deposit and got a paper check. The bank I used worked from 9 to 4. Payday was the 1st and the 15th. So on a very rare occasion it fell on a Friday. I would end up dropping my check in after work in an ATM and transfer funds through it as well. Saved me from going inside or having to take time off from work.
There were a couple of times that I go on vacation and payday would fall on Monday the next week. I would get my check early with a stipulation that I could not drop it in on Friday. If I took it to a teller, on Friday, the cutoff for current day business was 6pm instead of 2:30 like on other days. Instead I dropped it in on the ATM which got processed the next Monday and its cutoff was still 3:30pm.
(Just kidding)
the boy isn't smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand...
Go watch the video!!! LOL
But he got it half right.
Yes, they take away jobs, but they create so many more if you have the skill set. His economy would be in shambles if such productivity enhancing devices were not beng utilized in the economy to keep profit margins alive to keep companies alive.
The landscape has changed so dramatically. For example you don't need as many Tool and Die makers anymore, but when the changes were coming why didn't these guys go for CAD/CAM-FEA retraining to do their job in a different way? If they are Union Auto Working types that did it, why didn't their Union see it coming and push for retraining?
Obama wants to go back to the Carter years before all this technology, I was their it was no picnic, I don't want to go back....