On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:03:07 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:06:00 -0500, Ignoramus2837
wrote:

On 2013-09-17, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:20:56 -0500, Ignoramus14718
wrote:

On 2013-09-16, 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.

This is exactly right. It is a new equilibrium. The old equilibrium
was, workers worked at factories to make goods that then are sold to
those same workers.

The new equilibrium is, workers are not needed to make goods, which
are no longer made to sell to workers, since the workers have no
money to buy goods.

Exact same thing applies to services.

This is all why I m very worried about the future.

I'd start restocking that home shop of yours, Ig.
Damn the Wifey, Full Speed Ahead!


This will go on on the scale of decades, the food will go stale.

i
Actually..not if its the proper foods and its been packed properly.

I received my bucket of hard white wheat yesterday and was greeted
with an expiration date of 4 Sept 2043 sticker on the square bucket.


I have #10 cans filled at a Mormon packaging place that were filled in
the late 1990s that we eat regularly. They were filled and then
packed with an inert gas before sealing.

I was given about 900 lbs of such food stuffs about a year ago by one
of my clients, a Mormon who owns a machine shop. I am feeding 9
people..and its come in very handy.

Cool! One of the survival blogs I read (did I just admit to reading a
damned blog? sigh) described the food industry as having accepted a
standardized 2-year expiration date on all canned foods, though most
things remain good for far, far longer. I'm no longer dicey about
eating old-date foods, having read about so many studies showing that
they stay wholesome for decades.

Kept nice and cold, my milk lasts up to 10 days after the expiration
date.

Ig's gonna **** when he can't find food 3 days after a mild power
outage and/or transportation strike in Chitown area, but that's his
choice. shrug

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