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To: redgolum

I’m talking about spain. In europe they only work 30 to 35 hours a week anyway.

second, you wouldn’t be hiring anyone. I’m talking about mega factories with robots running around. You don’t have what it takes to compete in this field.


59 posted on 04/18/2012 1:30:23 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre
Friend, I probably do know what you are talking about, and mega factories with robots still doesn't solve the issue of what do you do with the majority of people who will not be supporting those robots.

Spain, and lets be honest the US, tried to have a nice welfare system. Of course that just attracted more and more people until the system collapses. Now, there really isn't much for them to do. There aren't enough jobs to fill all the unemployed (Spain is much worse than us here), and there aren't enough people with the right skills to do the higher IQ managing jobs that full automation would need.

I worked for a Spanish engineering firm, and many of them were hard working (and partying). The firm preferred to hire Americans because they didn't expect the same benefits as EU citizens did, and they could fire them at will.

Again, what do you do with the people who are not skilled enough to have much higher than a traditional farm or factory job? If we don't start thinking about that, and soon, we will either have a vast underclass of non workers or civil unrest like the world hasn't seen for a hundred years.

The population is a bell curve. We have been pushing the jobs further and further to one side without thinking about the consequences.

61 posted on 04/18/2012 6:44:12 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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