On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:59:33 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
wrote:

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The robots have to be programmed.

CADCAM programs still have to be created.

Jobs still have to be setup.

Modern, high-tech, state of the art, machining job shops haven't employed button pushers for many years.
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Indeed, but the people for those jobs are not the same
people that were displaced from the manufacturing line jobs.

==Remember 50% of the population is below average in
intelligence [and almost all other factors]==. I am still
looking for a study showing the median/average and 1st
decile [cutoff] IQ distribution for these "high-tech" and
other positions, so I can compare to the known adult
population IQ distribution. There are of course categories
within the aggregate IQ score which may be more significant
than aggregate IQ such as spatial
discrimination/visualization.
http://tinyurl.com/n3ut8qn

My rapidly growing suspicion is we are unintentionally
creating a situation where an increasing fraction of the US
population is [gainfully] unemployable, thereby producing a
permanent under class, which is not only dangerously
sociopolitically destabilizing, but increasingly expensive
to maintain [SNAP, section 8, Medicare/ACA, etc.] Dr.
Frankenstein didn't intend to create a monster either.
FWIW: The main danger may well come from above in the form
of "negative eugenics" to "solve" the problem, compounded by
an ever increasing lower IQ limit. Quick-- make a sentence
using the words hare, hunter and field.
http://tinyurl.com/2jhap4

As an analogy, if physical strength were the limiting
factor, we could impose rigorous PT in the schools, but if
the minimum is the ability to bench-press 200 kilos, a
significant minority, and possibly a majority, will never
meet the 200 kilo requirement, no matter how long/hard they
train, or how many steroids they take. We may already be at
this intelligence cut-off point. http://tinyurl.com/nsmm6rq


--
Unka' George

"Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"