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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 07:30:49 GMT
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In article <31pa5j$30j@tribune.usask.ca>, Henry Choy <choy@cs.usask.ca> wrote:
>Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
>: The displacement *I'm* worried about is becoming more NON-temporary!!! You
>: can call someone on assistance "displaced", but what do you call them when
>: they are working hard at a lower paying job 5 years later, still requiring
>: public assistance, and the automation that phased them out has provided
>: record earnings for the company stockholders who do nothing!!!
>
>So what? The employees probably had nothing to do with these earnings.
>Why should they benefit?
>
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Hmmm, I see. You are under the delusion that employees have nothing to do
with company earnings. How peculiar!!! You don't see that what they DON'T
have IS in fact what the earnings are!!! Those earnings are unearned by
human hands! People have been made destitute to allow the pseudo-legal
acquision of wealth! That wealth would have been theirs if they owned their
fair share of the means of production!
-RSW

>: In other
>: words, all you tax-payers out there: You're paying the family assistance so
>: that that company can simply ignore their tax obligation and make millions
>: on the backs of the displaced workers and their families whom we can't
>: afford to re-train to compete at their previous equivalent level!!!
>
>Why can't we afford it?
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Because those moneys are being skimmed as profit by the wealthy, the drones
who do not work! OTHER money from taxpayers has a poor chance of taking its
place and getting the job of retraining done!!!
-RSW

>If big business can show how smart it is to earn so much, why can't
>tax payers show how smart they are and educate themselves? After all,
>they have tax money. They're not broke.
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I give up on you, La Choy!!! You call them taxPAYERS and then you claim
that they have enough money to re-educate themselves, when it is others who
are NOT tax-payers who now NEED the re-education!!!! You are a brainless
fool who asks the first distorted piece of horseshit response that pops
into your head as an imagined retort!!!!
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END ARGUMENT
YOU LOST!
-RSW

