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Utterly outrageous that Mr Loomis is publishing this on a blog. A blog! Think of all those print workers (unionised print workers I may add) who are out of work
by lucozade 8y ago
Utterly outrageous that Mr Loomis is publishing this on a blog. A blog! Think of all those print workers (unionised print workers I may add) who are out of work because he didn't publish this as a pamphlet.
Or not.
Sure not all technology is progressive but this blinkered approach is exceptionally damaging. Ironically, the people that it's damaging most are the very people he purports to support.
By all means lobby for companies to invest in retraining but stringing out deprecated jobs and giving vulnerable people false hope is just plain mean.
- larrywright 8y agoI've seen similar comments about automation on Facebook recently. People seem to have short memories with regards to all the jobs that have come and gone due to the march of technology. 30+ years ago, most offices had a "secretarial pool" - people whose entire job was to take handwritten or dictated material, and type it on a typewriter. Busy professionals would never be expected to do something like this, but not everyone had a dedicated secretary, so a shared pool of people who could type fast made a lot of sense. Of course, when PCs became commonplace in offices, people started doing their own typing, and the secretarial pool became a thing of the past. I don't recall hearing about a huge issue with unemployed typists, so presumably those people found new jobs, likely more rewarding ones. I'm sure that the introduction of PCs onto virtualy every desk in an office 20-25 years ago eliminated other positions as well. I don't hear people proposing that we get rid of computers so that those people can all have their jobs back.