[ClearCase_guy]

The Left has opposed automation since the beginning. The Luddites and "Captain Swing" in the early 1800's wanted to keep as many folks working as subsistence-level farmers as possible.The Marxists in the early and mid 20th Century wanted to keep people working in unsafe Mills, factories and coal mines -- machinery threatened their livlihoods, you know.

Now people worry that automation/productivity reduces jobs. Figure it out people: automation helped us move from subsistence-level farming to computer programming. It's a good thing.

[Naspino]

For every machine there has to be people to maintain it, program it, design it, market it, build it, and install it. The problem these people have is that they never cared about education and relied on these stand here and hold you hand like that kind of job to be available.

[Destro]

We can export those muscle jobs to Mexico--we don't really need to employ the unskilled beyond McJobs.

America - the future Brazil....