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On Feb 1, 1:13 pm, Google Beta User<
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wrote: You can self-check out not just at supermarkets, but even libraries now. Plus every year, more retail is done online. Now as some places need less bodies so to speak, if you lose a job at such a place, and you're looking for more of the same kind of jobs wouldn't it obviously be harder? I was chatting with someone late last year, someone further in their career, and they told me that whatever one chooses to do, or whatever they are, from a sales associate to a computer programmer, that they should protect themselves by having attributes or skills that 1. aren't a dime a dozen and that 2. won't be done by a computer/robot in the forseable future. Been that way since pretty much the dawn of technological changes. Not a lot of demand for wagons any more - or slide rules - or typewriters... I think the underlying point is that technology gives us the ability to do more with the same input in terms of # of human-hours. This is a subject close to my heart, and one that I think the government has been aware of since at least the days of Ford - and I think they have been actively attempting to... massage?... the problem since. I'm sure I've gotten off on long rants about this here in the past - I won't put any of y'all through that again. Suffice to say - yes, of course technology, and the corresponding increase in efficiency (regarding production of goods and services) should push unemployment (Vonnegut's first novel, P_layer_ Piano, deals with this issue). That is hasn't, at least not hard, is a testament to our ability to (a) consume ever-larger quantities of things , and (b) create jobs that are worse than meaningless - jobs whose sole purpose seems to be the *introduction* of inefficiency to the production and distribution of stuff . I know, I know - stuck button and all that. Cheers.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Feel free to expound and expand - curious as to where your thought process is leading you on this topic
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You can self-check out not just at supermarkets, but even libraries now. Plus every year, more retail is done online. Now as some places need less bodies so to speak, if you lose a job at such a place, and you're looking for more of the same kind of jobs wouldn't it obviously be harder? I was chatting with someone late last year, someone further in their career, and they told me that whatever one chooses to do, or whatever they are, from a sales associate to a computer programmer, that they should protect themselves by having attributes or skills that 1. aren't a dime a dozen and that 2. won't be done by a computer/robot in the forseable future.
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future technology wiki Unemployment...is technology a possible culprit?
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You can self-check out not just at supermarkets, but even libraries now. Plus every year, more retail is done online. Now as some places need less bodies so to speak, if you lose a job at such a place, and you're looking for more of the same kind of jobs wouldn't it obviously be harder? I was chatting with someone late last year, someone further in their career, and they told me that whatever one chooses to do, or whatever they are, from a sales associate to a computer programmer, that they should protect themselves by having attributes or skills that 1. aren't a dime a dozen and that 2. won't be done by a computer/robot in the forseable future. Real unemployment problem in two words: Energy costs.
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You can self-check out not just at supermarkets, but even libraries now. Plus every year, more retail is done online. Now as some places need less bodies so to speak, if you lose a job at such a place, and you're looking for more of the same kind of jobs wouldn't it obviously be harder? I was chatting with someone late last year, someone further in their career, and they told me that whatever one chooses to do, or whatever they are, from a sales associate to a computer programmer, that they should protect themselves by having attributes or skills that 1. aren't a dime a dozen and that 2. won't be done by a computer/robot in the forseable future. Real unemployment problem in two words: Energy costs. Those damb hybrids are RUINING us!!!!
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You can self-check out not just at supermarkets, but even libraries now. Plus every year, more retail is done online. Now as some places need less bodies so to speak, if you lose a job at such a place, and you're looking for more of the same kind of jobs wouldn't it obviously be harder? I was chatting with someone late last year, someone further in their career, and they told me that whatever one chooses to do, or whatever they are, from a sales associate to a computer programmer, that they should protect themselves by having attributes or skills that 1. aren't a dime a dozen and that 2. won't be done by a computer/robot in the forseable future. It's always been like that but it's a little faster with technology today. One also needs to consider outsourced jobs, a job salary being undercut by an unemployed person willing to work for less, and what is feasible in the long-term. Some jobs are immune ... you can't outsource a funeral parlor very easily, other's are gray areas. It can't be outsourced - but it's quite likely to be replaced by technology in the relatively short term. No reason robots can't do a lot of that work.
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You can self-check out not just at supermarkets, but even libraries now. Plus every year, more retail is done online. Now as some places need less bodies so to speak, if you lose a job at such a place, and you're looking for more of the same kind of jobs wouldn't it obviously be harder? I was chatting with someone late last year, someone further in their career, and they told me that whatever one chooses to do, or whatever they are, from a sales associate to a computer programmer, that they should protect themselves by having attributes or skills that 1. aren't a dime a dozen and that 2. won't be done by a computer/robot in the forseable future. It's always been like that but it's a little faster with technology today. One also needs to consider outsourced jobs, a job salary being undercut by an unemployed person willing to work for less, and what is feasible in the long-term. Some jobs are immune ... you can't outsource a funeral parlor very easily, other's are gray areas. It can't be outsourced - but it's quite likely to be replaced by technology in the relatively short term. No reason robots can't do a lot of that work. Well, Costco now sells coffins. Coffins are the big source of money-making for funeral homes.
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