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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 11:57:21 GMT
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In article <30k5aa$a96@oyster.cs.columbia.edu>,
Michael Reed <m-reed@news.cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>In article <30jt34$6f6@magus.cs.utah.edu>,
>Greg Alt <galt@asylum.cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>In article <Ct8z84.np1@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> lundberg@expert.cc.purdue.edu. (lundberg) writes:
>>>I am a student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.  I am
>>>doing a research project on Automation.  Any opinions on the following
>>>points would be very much appreciated.
>>>
>>>1.  Does Automation Take Away Jobs from Blue Collar Workers?
>>>2.  What should be done with these workers after automation is
>>>implemented?
>>>
>>>Any opinions or other points will be read and are appreciated!  Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>In a capitalist system, blue collar workers get laid off and a smaller 
>>number of more skilled jobs get created.  The owners of the factories 
>>get to see more profits due to the added productivity.  Also, the extra
>>unemployment tends to cause a drop in wages for blue collar work, since
>>there are now more people looking for jobs.  
>>
>>In a socialist system, the extra profit can be given to the workers,
>>and the workers can have shorter work-weeks.
>>
>>Greg
>
>Is that the in-depth analysis, or a joke? Hopefully the latter.  
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YOU mean that YOU hope so. You're WRONG!
-Steve

>Tons has been written on this subject...I suggest going to a LIBRARY and 
>browsing around for a while...
>Michael
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Just go downtown and watch the homeless instead, and then ask your parents
if it was like that in their day!!! While you're at it pick up an almanac
and look at the income curves for the last 80 years in this society!! The
minority who own your house, statistically, are doing better than they ever
have!!! You, statistically, are NOT!!! Stalinism always corrupts and has no
resemblance to socialism anymore than this system resembles a free-market
capitalism. Neither varieties work. The one which has never been allowed to
even TRY just might!! Socialism is often called the untried alternative.
The Native Americans didn't think so. The Hopi and Pueblo peoples had the
longest running and most successful communisms on earth, next to every
other tribal people, and next to your ancestors of 3000 years ago! ALL
earlier culture's were socialisms. Capitalism is a recently discovered con
game which is attractive to the people that its social force alienates and
makes lonely and afraid of others. More people are sitting alone in their
rooms than ever before. You are possibly doing it now!!! Wake The Fuck UP!!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

