There was some interesting discussion about this a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127274 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127274

There was some interesting discussion about this a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127274 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127274 I guess one problem may be that the new jobs require skills that the old jobs didn't, and not all of the newly unemployed would be able to acquire those skills.