TheHeretic
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ORIGINAL: Marini
FACT is Rich, Millions of jobs that have been outsourced were NOT factory jobs, in fact many White collar jobs have been outsourced.
I think you know this already Rich, don't be disingenuous here.
Thousands of links about the number of blue collar and white collar jobs that have been outsourced can been found.
Hundreds of links related to the customer service and computer jobs that have been outsourced alone, Rich.
When you call your cell phone provider is the call answered by someone in the Philippines?
Try another angle.
Nothing disingenuous, Mari, I'm just taking the subject, and the boards in general, at a deliberately different pace and priority from the 8:00 - 5:00 load. I offered a view on the manufacturing jobs, now, with the first cider cracked before noon on a Saturday (darn, it's too windy to be out ripping the roof off my deck), I'll try another angle, on your excellent topic for good discussion. 
You know the next big wave of jobs that are just going to disappear, right? Grocery store checkout clerks. The self-checkouts started going in here, after the last strike, and very few of the old faces remain. It will probably be a while yet, before we get our food from a completely automated facility, but it is another whole sector on the way out.
As the changes come, people are going to have to adapt, and critically, we need a culture and climate where they are able to do so.
What new fields are going to be opened by the changes? What existing fields are going to boom? Will the jobs of taking care of the baby boomers just be about their medical needs? Can a one-time checkout clerk start a grocery delivery service, or get hired by one somebody more daring started? If there is a one word answer to your question of what we do about the loss of middle class jobs, my answer is, innovate.
Not everyone thinks in those terms. Some people want to get a job by lining up, then do what they are told, and take home a nice check for doing it. Their opportunities are going to be slower coming, and further between. Anyone who has ever reflected that their job could be done by a trained monkey, probably isn't going to find similar work ahead, and the help-wanted ads are the last place good jobs will be found. They'll get there eventually, but the hirees are going to start at the bottom of the ladder. And there will never be as many to go around.
I don't have soft, comforting words for those folks. They can set their sights real low, and try for a disability claim, they can lower their expectations, and hang on as best they can, or they can find a better way to see and play their game. Change doesn't stop.
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