Originally Posted by
danbaron
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I'm certain that freight haulers would love to eliminate their drivers. (That's what American politicians never talk about - the fact that computerization and mechanization have the potential of eliminating almost every job. The right wing politicians will never say it, but, their actions indicate that as the number of jobs continually decreases, those who no longer can find work and have been unable to adequately save, should quietly starve to death. The potential for permanent job elimination extends into every area. (Just think about the possibilities in information technology.) In this country I have noticed how uncaring many people are, that is, until it is their own job that is gone. Then, their outrage, hatred, and obsession for vengeance, are unbounded.)
You notice that like with this traffic monitoring device, the good jobs now are in developing computerized devices that do what people previously did. It reminds me of cannibalism. I can envision a time when the largest corporation will have no employees at all, only machines. A tiny tiny minority will live in ultra-protected mega-wealth. Everyone else will kill each other with rocks and sticks, in the struggle for the most primitive survival.
We are living in an age of hyper technological advancement, with no concomitant provisions made for most of humanity, which will no longer be able to work in order to procure money. The fight now is to be one of those whose job it is to eliminate the jobs of others, and not to be one of those whose job is eliminated. The problem for the eliminators, is that, as time passes, the size of their group keeps shrinking; because, almost by definition, they are cannibals. (It's better to feed people to the tigers, than to be the food, yes?)
Otherwise, everything here on planet Earth, is good.
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