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From: ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michael S. Miner)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
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Henry Choy (choy@cs.usask.ca) wrote:
: Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
: : Again you push me to categorize you...
: : <Scissors beat paper-Miner>   ...your equation
: : works.
: How does this prove anything about socialism? If the world turned
: socialist these people aren't going to guarantee you that they will
: learn how to read.
: --
:         Henry Choy                       "Math class is hard" - Barbie

  I think you may have just made the point behind all of this.  What
system guarantees anything?  Does automation in different systems displace
different people?  More to the point, did the mechanical reaper(combine)
fail to work in countries where farmers were poor?  I don't think so.
  When we replace a person with anything/one that is more effective, then   
the replaced person is worse off.  That temporary displacement is less 
bothersome to me than the general lack of improved standard living for
the rest of the farmers society.  Wonder how many would be starving if
we were still harvesting all produce by hand?
     
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Michael S. Miner                         ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu
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