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Like all automation (the wheel, the combine, ...) it pushes humans up the value chain. There is no market for coolies any more either, just like there won't be
by outside1234 11y ago
Like all automation (the wheel, the combine, ...) it pushes humans up the value chain. There is no market for coolies any more either, just like there won't be for truck drivers in 15 years.
The thing that is different is this time is that we have run the course on almost all unskilled labor now.
The implication of that is that people need to move up the value chain or perish.
- davedx 11y ago> The implication of that is that people need to move up the value chain or perish. Nice. So will there be enough jobs in this value chain for all the unemployed truck drivers?
- jacquesm 11y agoThe very clear issue is that not everybody can or wants to be pushed up the value chain and 'perishing' is not an option for large numbers of people in a society without that society itself perishing.