Computers, Unemployment and Wealth Creation

Andy Oram writes "Anyone who writes programs or plans system deployment should start thinking, "What can I do to bring average people back into the process of wealth creation?" A few suggestions."

Comments

Huh?

[DNS-and-BIND]

When have average people ever had a hand in wealth creation? They're not interested in wealth creation...they're freaking average people! What kind of socialist mumbo-jumbo is this? This kind of muddled thinking belongs in a 300-hits-a-day web log...not slashdot.

I've just come from China, where they do have this sort of "job creating by not using computers". Yup, people have jobs all right. Jobs taking plastic parts out of injection molding machines. Jobs assembling plastic parts together. Jobs welding with no eye protection. Thanks, but no thanks...I'll take mechanization and innovation any day.

NOT TRUE!!!

[Newer Guy]

Greenspan CREATED the recession to help the republicans get elected in 2000. See, he's a republican too. Good times would have meant a democrat's win for sure...We had what...10 straight quarters of interest rate hikes, the last four 1/2 point or better? The economy was DELIBERATELY slowed down by the FRB. I predicted this would happen - in 1997! I told all my friends that the economy would be great until the election year then it would slow down. Greenspan's problem was that he did his job too WELL! He slowed the economy down TOO well..and it got away from his control. Now, he's out of room to help it grow....Add 9/11 to the mix (and the dot com/bomb crap), season with Enron & Worldcom, and you've got a sure recipe for disaster. Yes, I believe that the economy would have slowed down by itself - but not until after the 2000 election. Greenspan wanted it in 2000, not knowing that the events of 2001 would throw it tinto a tailspin. He's a perfect example of the metaphor: "Be careful of what you wish for, because it might become true".

Re:Rinse, Repeat

[Hatta]

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