Posted on 07/18/2013 11:01:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk
I love this!!!!! It would have been nice 20 years ago.
Techsourcing has been going gangbusters for years. Recently we passed the point where there are more semi-skilled workers than jobs requiring them. This trend is going to do nothing but accelerate and is impacting skilled workers as well. The question remains: what will the excess workers do for a living?
The Democrat plan is to put them on the government plantation. Socket them into a government job or program and finance the ever-growing cost of their upkeep. I don't know for sure what they will do with them when Other People's Money finally dries up. Some type of Soylent Green solution, I suppose. They already do everything in their power to keep the hoi polloi from reproducing.
The Republican plan is...? With techsourcing, growing the economy does not necessarily result in more jobs-it may actually result in fewer jobs as breakthroughs in productivity occur. I don't have any ideas, myself.
And no Obamacare to fund!
“What happens when “entry level” jobs simply no longer exist? Beats me.”
Kind of like when secretaries were replaced by computers....
Someday all of these service industries will be automated. Of course, there won’t be anyone with the funds to go there, but it’ll still be cool.
If we had a hands off government, the solution would “magically” appear and many people would find jobs in a nifty new industry. However, we have the restrictive, heavy hand of government holding back innovation, so you are right to be concerned.
We import more foreign workers to do the next tier of work, of course!
OMG!!! All those masters degrees wasted at Starbucks.
What will those out of work Womyns studies majors do now?
Most of these less-skilled workers are not going to move into management. Most of them are not going to become entrepreneurs. Most of them are not going to take unskilled jobs because they cannot compete with imported labor. Most of them will become chronically unemployed. I don't have a solution to the problem.
The machines don’t need health care.
If we didn’t have so much government interference, some solution would be created. That is the way it has always been and always will be. Capitalism is “magical” in such things...
However, with the level of government intrusion into the market, you are right. We will have a population of unemployable folks that won’t do anything to better themselves. They will be just comfortable enough to sit around and complain about the “rich” people that go to work.
Plus, if a solution to the problem arises, like a nifty new industry, then it will be in spite of the government.
Oh. You’ll get served Peak Oil and nuts.
The SEIU will try to organize the robot burger making machines. Just wait.
The U.S. government is already confiscating a percentage of automation output via the highest corporate income tax in the world and via other taxes and fees. An energy tax is in part an automation tax. As long as we have energy, that wealth keeps getting created and won't run out, although the beast will always want more. Borrowing trillions from the future is a bet that future robots will be able to service that debt. The unemployed will become essentially human pets and will gravitate to the big cities where it is easier to house and care for them. Like most pets, they will be fixed in exchange for treats, so the surplus pet supply will eventually be reduced. If for some reason the government comes to a point they can't afford or find new homes for their pets, or the pets get too old and expensive to care for, most will be put to sleep. A nuclear war which wipes out the big cities would also solve the surplus problem.
I think it is also a little unfair to think that ALL the workers won't do anything to help themselves. There won't be a whole lot that they CAN do. Those who try to stay in the game by retooling will be competing with younger, better educated candidates for a small number of openngs. IMO they won't have much chance.
Nothing on the face of this Earth, will ever replace that now-gone, but revered Horn and Hardardt ‘Automat’ in NYC.
Yes! I was delighted to partake of the offerings from a Horn and Hardardt Automat sometime in 1969 while in NYC. Quite an experience.
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