On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:39:35 -0500, "Pete C."
wrote:


Ignoramus8750 wrote:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view...mputerization/

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to
Computerization

The thing that is missed in many of those articles is that many of the
automatable jobs cease to exist when the jobs are not available to human
workers who can then earn an income and be consumers for the products of
the jobs. It doesn't matter how many widgets your automated factory can
produce when there are no buyers for them.

You're thinking way too narrowmindedly, Pete. Y'see, it's like this:
The evil Reps automate all the factories, laying off the entire
country in the process. Then the evil Dems put everyone on welfare
and the masses then have the money to buy the items produced by the
automated factories, all because the evil Dems taxed the evil Rep
factories to death. Oops, wait, that might end it all, huh?

NOW who's gonna pay off CONgress?

--
Try not to become a man of success but
rather try to become a man of value.
--Albert Einstein