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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."
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Impeach Bush! That will help.
um, the original link worked just fine you fucking idiot.
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Rich people are all evil Republicans who want to rape other countries for their oil supply under the guise of leadership and freedom. Screw that. I don't ever want to get rich, because rich people are all pricks and I'll be one, too. Oh wait... no I take that back. *I* wouldn't do that if I were rich. The problem with rich people is that the wrong ones are rich. All the stupid people managed to get rich and while all the smart people stay poor.
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I read the article, I think it's the same crap. Maybe this person is trying to justify their own employment by writing about computers?
/. or news.google.com (maybe it has something to do w/the recent article about news/information junkies).
Anyway, for the most part, computers cause a lack of productivity at work. Slashdot, AIM, IRC, ssh sessions, etc. I regularly find myself bored with the task at hand and reloading
I think that if the Internet was removed, all flashy programs blocked, and only Word, the frontend to our database, and various other necessary apps were included, I would be far more productive than I am now.
Wait, probably not, I would most likely then move on to other forms of distraction.. Like talking to people in the office, being the "office wanderer", or using the bathroom after drinking multiple cups of coffee/water...
Nothing will help the falling marketplace except money being poured in. No money is going to get poured in when governments are holding back the pay of workers to refund what they had lost.
Computer programs put people out of work. Always have and always will.
The main function of most business software is automating a task that used to be done by a person. As soon as the program is put to use, less manhours are needed to do the same work, and then the layoffs come. Any questions?
Most Slashdotters live with their parents, so creating wealth is not a concept they understand. For example, the concept of Open Source. They are cool with it because they don't have to pay the rent.
Likewise, they are cool with ripping off the RAII via P2P because.... They don't have to pay the rent.
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.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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".
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