So you are saying corporations should be free to make unencumbered profit but the same should not go for an educational institution? Kind of a double standard is that not?
So where are the jobs that these people should migrate to? Keep in mind they have little education and by the time they transfer mortgages etc a move may be $30K or so, and need to recoup this cost with the new position. Or perhaps we should just call it $50K since you probably also expect them to get an education, somehow keeping their family fed during this time, and recoup that as well. Moving is very risky for someone without a significant savings or guaranteed higher income when moved.
Moving can conservatively cost $10K just for your stuff. You are probably moving away from your support structure so childcare could cost an extra $10K/year/child. There had better be some rock solid opportunity you are moving to, in order to make up all these costs. Not sure if that even exists any more.
Yes, that old faith that new jobs will open up. The problem now is you can definitely see the old jobs closing but I have not yet to see one person mention any job that will open.
Investors make crazy gobs of money, there is a lot of room for everyone. Investing is supposed to be about risk, but it seems one you reach a certain size you can basically work things in a way that removes all your risk. If in the end state, investors don't have the stomach to be investors any more then fine they can get a differnt job like anyone else.
The problem is the public trading system, coupled with governments that have protected companies and allowed them to grow beyond a size where they can be allowed to fail. In true capitalism, companies should fail all the time with new companies taking their place and perhaps other people having a chance to move up in life and become a more important part of the new stronger company with different ideas. As we have it today, companies simply siphon more and more money to the top year over year and this has never been sustainable. Furthermore, with fewer, larger companies, it hampers the real competition at the employment level. A few companies have no trouble forcing general cost of labor down without really ever having to conspire together in a legal sense. Bring in things like H-1B and you have a big mess that falls on the shoulders of ordinary people.
It's easy to write a comment professing "thou shalt learn a non-automatable skill" but there are many reasons why this is a vast oversimplification to the point that it is almost laughable. Education costs money, many people cannot BE educated if they have the money, and what do you educate yourself in anyway? Almost any "attainable with a college certificate" job seems to be a candidate for automation over the next 15 years or so.
I fully support their right to strike since it is the only mechanism the 'common worker' has to defend themselves and ensure they get a reasonable slice of the pie. However, this is probably something that cannot be stopped.
The locked down company that puts their profits ahead of your usage is definitely the worst of two evils. At least the invasion of privacy can be mitigated in some ways and it doesn't directly affect me since my life isn't all that exciting that I would warrant specific attention. Even if I had nudes on my phone I'm pretty sure no one would want them!
As I said above, if the number of 6000 pedestrian deaths a year is true, it means humans drive 530 million miles without a pedestrian death. It is a rarity.
When Trump buys a resort or a building, you life is not on the table. If you truly believe that this does not change the game, then all I can say is that I feel truly bad for you. You are essentially saying that your life, and the life of everyone you know is no more important than a dollar in Trump's bank account. Perhaps if you are American and you truly believe this, then America has been lost already anyway for it is no way to exist.
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Yup, fair and equal sharing of wealth and resources for one. Soviet Union never did it.
So have a family or have a job. Now I understand why there are so many welfare families.
Ok so, again,more speculation. Not so much the hard example I was asking for.
I've seen this list before. It has got to be the most depressing list of dead-end and low paying jobs ever. Uber driver? That's not even a real job.
Very few factories are here. What makes you think robot factories will be here?
That only makes sense if it is your position that fundamental Nazism has some good in it that Hitler somehow did not implement.
So you are saying corporations should be free to make unencumbered profit but the same should not go for an educational institution? Kind of a double standard is that not?
Part of my point.. how many times in a person's life can they realistically afford to move?
There are many other people on Slashdot besides you and I who can speak up.
The point is that there were many domestic factories. It was much more complicated to make things in the third world back then.
Wrong.. back then the machines for farming were all made domestically so that's a pretty obvious answer. They went to work in factories.
So where are the jobs that these people should migrate to? Keep in mind they have little education and by the time they transfer mortgages etc a move may be $30K or so, and need to recoup this cost with the new position. Or perhaps we should just call it $50K since you probably also expect them to get an education, somehow keeping their family fed during this time, and recoup that as well. Moving is very risky for someone without a significant savings or guaranteed higher income when moved.
That's an old line. The soviet union wasn't even the true concept of communism, their failure means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Moving can conservatively cost $10K just for your stuff. You are probably moving away from your support structure so childcare could cost an extra $10K/year/child. There had better be some rock solid opportunity you are moving to, in order to make up all these costs. Not sure if that even exists any more.
Yes, that old faith that new jobs will open up. The problem now is you can definitely see the old jobs closing but I have not yet to see one person mention any job that will open.
Moving would be possible for some, but not for all. Many will be settled there. Moving involves a lot of risk and expense, much like education.
So all 50,000 workers suddenly need to find a new career? You think Las Vegas needs 50,000 more plumbers?
Investors make crazy gobs of money, there is a lot of room for everyone. Investing is supposed to be about risk, but it seems one you reach a certain size you can basically work things in a way that removes all your risk. If in the end state, investors don't have the stomach to be investors any more then fine they can get a differnt job like anyone else.
The problem is the public trading system, coupled with governments that have protected companies and allowed them to grow beyond a size where they can be allowed to fail. In true capitalism, companies should fail all the time with new companies taking their place and perhaps other people having a chance to move up in life and become a more important part of the new stronger company with different ideas. As we have it today, companies simply siphon more and more money to the top year over year and this has never been sustainable. Furthermore, with fewer, larger companies, it hampers the real competition at the employment level. A few companies have no trouble forcing general cost of labor down without really ever having to conspire together in a legal sense. Bring in things like H-1B and you have a big mess that falls on the shoulders of ordinary people.
It's easy to write a comment professing "thou shalt learn a non-automatable skill" but there are many reasons why this is a vast oversimplification to the point that it is almost laughable. Education costs money, many people cannot BE educated if they have the money, and what do you educate yourself in anyway? Almost any "attainable with a college certificate" job seems to be a candidate for automation over the next 15 years or so.
I fully support their right to strike since it is the only mechanism the 'common worker' has to defend themselves and ensure they get a reasonable slice of the pie. However, this is probably something that cannot be stopped.
The locked down company that puts their profits ahead of your usage is definitely the worst of two evils. At least the invasion of privacy can be mitigated in some ways and it doesn't directly affect me since my life isn't all that exciting that I would warrant specific attention. Even if I had nudes on my phone I'm pretty sure no one would want them!
As I said above, if the number of 6000 pedestrian deaths a year is true, it means humans drive 530 million miles without a pedestrian death. It is a rarity.
When Trump buys a resort or a building, you life is not on the table. If you truly believe that this does not change the game, then all I can say is that I feel truly bad for you. You are essentially saying that your life, and the life of everyone you know is no more important than a dollar in Trump's bank account. Perhaps if you are American and you truly believe this, then America has been lost already anyway for it is no way to exist.
When my kid pokes his eye out with your phone corners, I'm planning on suing Apple for forcing other phone makers to make sharp corners.