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To: RoosterRedux

If education and management and sales can go completely online and be performed entirely by robots, then as I said above, there are tons of other jobs where the same is true, Business, accounting, computing, counseling, psychology, and tons more that one could come up with. And if tens of millions Americans who were specialized in all these jobs do have to learn entirely new trades, what would they do for income in the meantime, given our economy is so weak it could not provide enough jobs for even the majority of them while they learn new trades? That is why in our economic and political times even technological advancement is mostly bad news.


89 posted on 02/04/2014 12:58:45 PM PST by freedom462
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To: freedom462
If education and management and sales can go completely online and be performed entirely by robots.

That's NOT what I said.

Going "online" is NOT the same thing as "being performed entirely by robots."

And when technology requires the transition to new ways of working, it doesn't occur all at once.

Look at the way people adapted to using PC's. It made their jobs easier, it didn't take them away.

I don't think the future is "bad" news.

I think that is just one person's outlook when that person has a negative attitude caused by fear of change. Fear of change is a perfectly normal thing, but it isn't always rational. And whether one is afraid of change or not...it is still coming.

So we better make the best of it.;-)

92 posted on 02/04/2014 1:37:08 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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