..."(manufacturing...people)...are the equivalent of call center people"?!
Any more, perhaps, but long-time phone jockeys, who endured lots of training, paid lots of money for (and overnight-crammed for) certs and other post-surname letters, tend to take it in the crotch on statements like that.
But now all the highly-qualified service techs that Big Business squandered to India for a song can only get about $8.00/hr (in Houston, anyway) for swapping boards and "Ghost-imaging" drives, which is why we're all cable guys or envelope-stuffers or warehouse forklift drivers, or what-not.
...sigh...
Whose fault? Take this multiple-choice:
A: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! WE WANT CHEAPER MACHINES! WE WANT CHEAPER MACHINES! (oh, by the way, we stil want you to support 'em, but we're not paying for that)..."
B: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! THE SERVICE DIVISIONS ARE REVENUE BLACK HOLES, AND IT'S MAKING ME LOOK INCOMPETENT! WAAA- WAIT! - I GOT AN IDEA! OUR CUSTOMERS AREN'T PAYING FOR SUPPORT, SOOOooo..."
C: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! YOUR SHARES AREN'T PERFORMING! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! YOUR SHARES AREN'T PERFORMING! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
D: (the correct answer) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
"Waaaaaaahhhhhh! I can't get away with fucking off at school any more - waaaaaaahhhhhh! Next thing you know, they'll take my phone away so I can't sell drugs on campus! - Omigod! I'll actually have to stay awake and pay attention and do my homework ! Waaaaaaahhhhhh!"
Shut up, sit down, show some respect (whether it's genuine or not) and learn something, for god's sake, so you don't end up pushing a shopping cart containing all your worldly possessions and scrounging the sidewalks for change and cigarette butts...
"...Food became infinitely easier to produce (no pun intended) so the economy became less formed around agriculture and more around industry. Then industry became much more efficient (through automation), the economy became less formed around manufacturing and more service oriented..."
...and then because of AI the Services industry become less a focal point of economy, since it'll cost way less to let one o' those damned thinking machines keep the bread lines moving than it would to pay a shaved monkey to do it...
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Any more, perhaps, but long-time phone jockeys, who endured lots of training, paid lots of money for (and overnight-crammed for) certs and other post-surname letters, tend to take it in the crotch on statements like that.
But now all the highly-qualified service techs that Big Business squandered to India for a song can only get about $8.00/hr (in Houston, anyway) for swapping boards and "Ghost-imaging" drives, which is why we're all cable guys or envelope-stuffers or warehouse forklift drivers, or what-not.
Whose fault? Take this multiple-choice:
A: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! WE WANT CHEAPER MACHINES! WE WANT CHEAPER MACHINES! (oh, by the way, we stil want you to support 'em, but we're not paying for that)..."
B: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! THE SERVICE DIVISIONS ARE REVENUE BLACK HOLES, AND IT'S MAKING ME LOOK INCOMPETENT! WAAA- WAIT! - I GOT AN IDEA! OUR CUSTOMERS AREN'T PAYING FOR SUPPORT, SOOOooo
C: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! YOUR SHARES AREN'T PERFORMING! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! YOUR SHARES AREN'T PERFORMING! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
D: (the correct answer) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Shut up, sit down, show some respect (whether it's genuine or not) and learn something, for god's sake, so you don't end up pushing a shopping cart containing all your worldly possessions and scrounging the sidewalks for change and cigarette butts...