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To: ex-snook
Here's the problem ~ we have runaway roboticization, automation, computerization, mechanization ~ and we continue to make more and more at a lower and lower price with fewer and fewer people.

We could very well prohibit the importation of any products and require that everything be made in America. The consequences would be the same. We'd make more and more at lower and lower prices with fewer and fewer people.

China, which is late to this game, is already face the same problem in many industries.

If you would like to fight back against this insidious process demand the removal of computers from schools, workplaces and homes.

18 posted on 09/29/2010 1:26:25 PM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: muawiyah

I remember in the 80s the Unions and Dems were up in arms about the roboticization and computerization of jobs. They actually tried to halt technical progress instead of evolve with it. I remember a big movement to ban robots from being used in factories out of fear of costing jobs.

The other big complaint at the time were businesses bringing in Japanese quality and efficiency standards like Kaizen- which required workers to be more efficient. Again, the Unions were up in arms about these new standards because one worker would end up being more productive than two or three. Heck, Hollyweird even put out movies about how bad it was.


22 posted on 09/29/2010 1:31:49 PM PDT by mnehring
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