[Lazamataz]

The United States currently has 20 million people unemployed as a consequence of these processes. We'll probably end up with another 20 million unemployed from the same processes in just a decade. We have to figure out how to keep folks employed and paid.

How about the Post Office?

;^)

[muawiyah]

We mechanized, automated and computerized the bejaysus out of postal operations. They only need about 300,000 people these days and are looking to layoff 250,000 in short order.

If you wanted to do a study on DEFLATIONARY PRESSURES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES you could start at USPS.

Since the early 1970s they had a 700% increase in productivity per workhour. I was one of the first of the budding young employees at Headquarters to come up with a device that would displace one employee for every one device purchased. That became a goal or ambition of others as well, and they worked it to the bone.