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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 13:10:46 GMT
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In article <30mlb6$pjr@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
Frank Manning <frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu> wrote:
>The U.S. has been automating for the past hundred years at least. If
>automation caused the loss of jobs over the long term, we should have
>seen a gradual increase in unemployment over the last hundred years.
>But we haven't.
>-- Frank Manning
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Of course we have, Frank! You just forget that before social security,
people just died a lot of starvation!!! There was no unemployment
compensation!!! That's how they used to keep the unemployment low back
then. Now it's MUCH larger because humanity developed a sense of guilt or
else the running firefights with police in the 20's and 30's made the job
so unattractive that people finally elected a populist president! Roosevelt
did things so much differently that the US has never been the old bad
place it was since! Gee, Frank, from your site, I'd expect you to be an
engineer and not know shit about sociology and history. And I'm glad to
find that I'm right!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

