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From: ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michael S. Miner)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
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Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
: In article <1994Jul25.030512.21689@rgfn.epcc.edu>,
: Michael S. Miner <ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu> wrote:
: >     I'm not sure what Papa Joe's Paradise, or any other dead
: >totalitarian autocracy has to do with robots displacing workers. 
			.	.	.
: >half of the tribe out of the hunting with rocks business, but
: >they just chalked it up to magic.  
: >     Fighting progress is futile, ignoring it is cowardly, and
: >arguing about it is just plain stupid.  :-)
: >Michael S. Miner                         ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu
: ---------------------------------------
: The trick is, Michael, how to "force them to adapt to a new world" where
: they have a much "lower standard of living for laborers" without you being
: the one to wind-up with a spear in your back and a rock in your skull.
: You had better train them and accept economic equality with them, because
: you're way outnumbered. Interesting turn of a phrase: A programmer;
: out-numbered!!
: -Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com
	I was using the 'we' and 'they' to keep the point straight.  
I have been an unskilled laborer, the difference for the sake of
argument is that I, unlike the postulated masses, welcome the day
when I am replaced by a machine in a repetative task.
	I'm sure no one complains when they do laundry, because
some washer woman was put out of work, least of all the would be
washer!   As for forcing adaptation, It really can't be done.
Good thing I don't buy all this nonsense about people who resist
automation.  I really have never met anyone who was afraid of 
obsolesence anymore than they were afraid of just plain getting
fired.  I only mentioned it, because there seemed to be many   
posts extolling the benefits of having a 'working class'
	One thing I do think: If a person chooses to reject the
free education we offer in a modern country, then they should
expect no more than a third world standard of living(even if
they live in Washington, DC!).  :end of pontification}


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Michael S. Miner                         ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu
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