The government CAN do something.
In addition to repealing Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, and reining in out of control agencies such as the EPA and permitting more oil and gas drilling, the Federal Government could create tens of millions of private sector jobs by lowering or better yet completely abolishing corporate income taxes.
In before, ‘bring jobs back now. Just sayin.’.’
These futurists are nuts. I see the fall of Rome, they see Star Trek.
Our absolute reliance on technology and electricity has made our society more vulnerable to destruction than any in history. Just look at what the simple breakdown of roads did to Europe after Rome. Think of a world where electricity stopped overnight.
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I hope there's enough people around who know that
1) the first step to our future is cutting the poverty-creating $4 trillion government spending and taxes by at least 80% and get them out of meddling with our economic and commercial affairs.
2) the next step that naturally flows from small government is the rise of the wealth-creating free market economy that has always been the basis of our superior standard of living for the average person.
The key is cutting government. As Reagan once said (a truth that has not nor will ever change), "Government isn't the solution, government is the problem."
The more I read these articles and see what is happening in the U.S., the more I think Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player Piano” was prophetic.
I completely agree. All the jobs will be taken by all the illegal aliens.
Not unless the EPA,NSA, IRS, DEA, NLRB and almost all of the other government alphabet agencies are defunded and consigned to the oblivion they deserve. JMHO!
The machines also turned unskilled labor into skilled labor with higher wages to match.
Obama blamed the loss of jobs on machines like ATMs replacing bank tellers. So who designs and makes the ATM machines? Increased automation actually creates the need for more skilled workers and less need for the unskilled. Our highest unemployment levels are for those having the least education.
You can do two types of work: work with your hands, or work with your brain.
The Industrial Revolution removed many of the first kind of work.
The Information Revolution is taking care of the second.
So what’s next? What jobs are there going to be for the simpletons of the world to do? And when they are idle, well we know what they say about idle hands.
so why do we need more illegals here to “do the work American’s won’t do” then?
I think that I’m on the side of the futurists on this one: jobs for production and many services have been declining steadily. Between the unions driving up the cost of US labor, the worldwide competition in production, and our insistence on the lowest prices rather than buying American, the jobs are being automated or sent overseas or given to Latin American “migrants”. Robots don’t strike, don’t steal, don’t cost more than initial investment, maintenance, and power. They also work very precisely, removing more and more sources of error.
It’s not like we did ask for it: I remember watching my fellow workers at Lockheed steal tools and material, goof off, stretch jobs out to get overtime hours, and generally get away with everything thanks to the unions.
All of this begs the question - what are we going to do with those parts of our population who used to fill those blue collar and service jobs?
Exactly half of the population has an IQ less than 100 and what will we do with them when automation gets more firmly entrenched? Will we have to pay them off so they don’t get violent? Chances are, they’ll be violent anyway - so what do we do - make bigger prisons?
there’s an area in my hometown that used to be the drive in theater back in the 1970s. By the early 1990s it was a grocery store. Then it became a different grocery store. Then wal mart came and it went out of business. Now it’s government offices. I don’t expect that to change any time soon. Should or present course continue, that’s what the economy of our future will look like imo.
Only if we remained a free country, but it looks like most of us will live more like the tenement dwellers of the 20's NYC
Right now there is a huge shortage of skilled industrial workers, welders, machinists, etc. Largely because schools stopped teaching shop and other industrial skills, and propagandized that everyone needs to go to college. Now people are graduating from colleges with mountains of debt and can’t find decent jobs, while trade school grads are being scooped up for jobs in the high 5 figures and there aren’t enough of them.
Everything will be hunky dory until the dollar crashes and some enterprising internet genius puts the grid down. Then not so much. :-)
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