Problem, it's eliminated the dumb from the workforce...and the dumb gotta eat too.
I don't know the answer. I know the principal reason most companies use computing machines is to reduce human effort (hours) in order to reduce cost and increase precision.
If you have the brains and inclination, technology is THE field to be in.
It's busier now than at any time in the last 30 years as far as I can tell.
Are you serious? You don't have to be able to punch the price of a Big Mac into the register, simply press the key with the picture of a Big Mac.
You don't have to add the items, multiply by the local tax rate, then subtract from the amount the customer gives you. You punch the pictures, press the key with the dollar amount the customer gives, and it tells you how much change to give. In some cases it dispenses the change for you in case you can't recognize the coins' values.
The equipment tells you when the fries are cooked(again, with pictures to clue you in).
I think technology is making the workplace available to the ignorant.
Agreed. In the middle of this economic collapse, I cannot beat back the phone calls and emails bidding for my attention.
Ergo, those performing repetitive, brainless functions.
120IQ is the new 100IQ.
People need to use their brains, to, in the words of my grandfather, the inventor of many things, to "find a need and fill it."
The days of the Warcraft "What is it?" peasant are drawing to a close.
What, though, of the dumb, of those whose only capacity is to change sheets, stamp metal with a repetitive pattern, or what have you?
I'm torn between the need to evolve as a society to keep ahead of China and others, and showing mercy to the poor - the poor in intellect, in this case.
At the risk of being flamed here, I do not want to see the plantation owners, the so-called "1%" get even more. These do-nothints seldom lift a finger relying instead on the labors of de facto if not de jure slaves for their wealth.
Your thoughts?