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Edwird -> RE: On the lighter side of today's news... (7/13/2016 11:00:12 PM)
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To both thompsonx and RottenJohnny i will respond;
We've had this sort of discussion several times during the course of the 20th century.
There have been doom and gloom forecasts about humans being superfluous to the matter of making most goods and even services before, but here we are hanging on.
I think that RJ is a bit too cavalier insofar as addressing the the issue as exists at the moment, even if not wrong about the overall premise. I can tell you, the whole US education system is not up to the task as it stands now. Not every 15 yr. old can figure out on her own what is going to be the next big thing in the way of what will be in demand and how that is going to be accomplished 5-7 years hence, when they are done at the community college or the uni, and both HS and college counselors are completely useless, from my experience and those of most people I know.
But the biggest impediment to US workers being able to keep up with change is that it is holy mantra in US business schools that workers are the enemy, in fact considered as pestilence. Every avenue possible to lowering wages is promoted. Which is why the double whammy of importing labor from other countries by way of imports and importing labor itself for lower skilled jobs are considered a good thing only secondarily because of lower costs on their own, but primarily because it keeps domestic labor cost as low as possible.
And if you think I am being too wacky in saying so, you are welcome to it, but that is also the reason wealthy conservatives and the 'business community' in general scream very loudly at any mention of even just free community college, much less at the university.
Lowest wages, at any cost (which in the US, is always externalized).
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