Are you concerned that your inexpensive computer will cause many millions of people to lose their jobs to automation and be unable to support themselves, forcing them into a life of crime to support their families and a bleak future for all of us?
Short answer: Oh, hell, no!
Long Answer: People need to change and adapt with technology. The days of having the same job for 50 years and getting a gold watch at retirement is long gone.
How on earth does a Masters Degree holder in Comp Sci get those credentials without understanding basic internet protocols?
If you think that's bad... When I worked at the Goolge Help Desk, I had to walk a new CS graduate through the process of turning on his PC as no one was standing around like they do in the computer labs. I've been told repeatedly on Slashdot that CS is software theory that has nothing to do hardware theory.
[...] (which dried up rather quickly with the arrival of the Dot Bomb).
Healthcare became the new money major after the dot com bust. Everyone and their grandmother dropped CIS like a rock and enrolled in healthcare. Friends told me I was crazy to be in computers. Fast forward to today... Many of my friends in healthcare are making more money than me but hate their jobs with a passion. I'm enjoying my career in IT support, and, ironically, some of my best contract work is for hospitals.
I wouldn't count on that. I had several friends who graduated from the university with computer science degrees who stopped learning. After they got laid off from working at the same company for six or seven years during the dot com bust, and took six-month vacations while collecting unemployment benefits, no one wanted to hire them because their job skills were obsolete. They refused to spend their savings on professional courses, boot camps, or even books to help themselves get up to speed. When they exhausted their savings, they both ended up getting drug store clerk jobs. Today they are still working as drug store clerks. What a waste of a good university degree.
You actually think you can retrain after 10 years.
Yes.
After 10 years you will be too old to get a job in tech, any job.
I'm 20+ years into my technical career.
You'll be too old and totally worthless.
When I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs and recruiters told me I was unemployable for everything else. I never believed them. When the economy turned around in 2011, I was working again. I'm currently two years into a five year contract in government IT, where I'm one of the youngest workers among the greybeards.
I went back to community college on a post-9/11 $3,000 tax credit for job retraining to learn computer programming. Since I already had an A.A. degree, I only had to take the programming classes to get my A.S. degree. That took five years to complete. At the beginning I couldn't get some classes because there was too many students. Towards the end I couldn't get some classes because there weren't enough students, as healthcare became the new money major. After working six years a video game tester, I went into IT support. A decade later I'm working fewer hours per week (my employment contracts prohibit working OT), making more money and paying more in taxes.
If aging is resolved, why would you retire?? Slave forever!
For most Americans, retirement is not an option. This will be glaringly obvious in 2030 when the baby boomers are retired, the workforce (tax base) is smaller, and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare.
That's not my experience, and not only did I work on contract for several years, my wife works on contract, and several of my friends work on contract (all in technology).
I work for a contracting agency on long-term assignments. Contractors with proven track records get a lot perks toss their way.
The Chinese were paid for their labor and then went home afterwards.
I'll try to remember that the next time I visit China Town in San Francisco.
What happened to Allied civilians who were in Japan when they sneak attacked Pearl Harbor? Oops, they went into internment camps too.
That justifies violating the constitutional rights of American citizens of Japanese descent by locking them up and confiscating their property? That mistake cost taxpayers $1.6B in reparations.
What's SUPPOSED to happen is that they're supposed to be oppressed victims, racism, blah blah.
Never mind that the Chinese built the western half of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century, and the Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps in the 20th century.
Though, California has a higher-than-usual Hispanic population, so maybe nationally the % of Hispanic AP Exam takers is less than 7.
You're be surprised by the number of white people who are clueless to the fact that California once belong to Mexico and most cities have Spanish names (San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles).
[...] they will pick a path of less resistance by choosing a different major.
Did it ever occur to you that minority students might have a different focus than white students?
Meanwhile, black students may also be inclined to give back to their communities by pursuing traditional fields. "If you're an African American who majors in math, you're more likely to become a schoolteacher. If you're a white male who majors in math, you're more likely to go on to grad school in business or to seek out higher education opportunities," Carnevale explained to The Wall Street Journal. This doesn't mean black students should stop being teachers, said Carnevale. Instead, colleges need to expand their career counseling to boost awareness of other majors and what they earn.
I am a white male who was unemployed until recently. I have a pretty nice resume with a couple of degrees. I found it difficult to find employment simply because I am a white male.
I would suspect that your "pretty nice resume with a couple of degrees" was probably less than stellar. Degrees don't matter as much. Experience counts a whole lot more these days. Blaming diversity programs for your lack of employment opportunities is a cop out.
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[...] but for the majority of horses... where did they go?
Being shipped to Canada or Mexico as horse meat for export.
http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2013/02/27/who-knew-canada-is-no-3-in-global-horse-meat-export-trade/
The rest of humanity will be left to fight among ourselves for what scraps remain.
Soylent green, anyone?
I retire next week, 53 years and am getting a gold watch.
Congratulations!
So you're a liar and an idiot.
My father worked 50 years for three generations of owners. He never got a gold watch. He retired when he got terminal cancer and died six weeks later.
Are you concerned that your inexpensive computer will cause many millions of people to lose their jobs to automation and be unable to support themselves, forcing them into a life of crime to support their families and a bleak future for all of us?
Short answer: Oh, hell, no!
Long Answer: People need to change and adapt with technology. The days of having the same job for 50 years and getting a gold watch at retirement is long gone.
How on earth does a Masters Degree holder in Comp Sci get those credentials without understanding basic internet protocols?
If you think that's bad... When I worked at the Goolge Help Desk, I had to walk a new CS graduate through the process of turning on his PC as no one was standing around like they do in the computer labs. I've been told repeatedly on Slashdot that CS is software theory that has nothing to do hardware theory.
[...] (which dried up rather quickly with the arrival of the Dot Bomb).
Healthcare became the new money major after the dot com bust. Everyone and their grandmother dropped CIS like a rock and enrolled in healthcare. Friends told me I was crazy to be in computers. Fast forward to today... Many of my friends in healthcare are making more money than me but hate their jobs with a passion. I'm enjoying my career in IT support, and, ironically, some of my best contract work is for hospitals.
[...] you know, the whole being an adult thing.
I wouldn't count on that. I had several friends who graduated from the university with computer science degrees who stopped learning. After they got laid off from working at the same company for six or seven years during the dot com bust, and took six-month vacations while collecting unemployment benefits, no one wanted to hire them because their job skills were obsolete. They refused to spend their savings on professional courses, boot camps, or even books to help themselves get up to speed. When they exhausted their savings, they both ended up getting drug store clerk jobs. Today they are still working as drug store clerks. What a waste of a good university degree.
You actually think you can retrain after 10 years.
Yes.
After 10 years you will be too old to get a job in tech, any job.
I'm 20+ years into my technical career.
You'll be too old and totally worthless.
When I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy, hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs and recruiters told me I was unemployable for everything else. I never believed them. When the economy turned around in 2011, I was working again. I'm currently two years into a five year contract in government IT, where I'm one of the youngest workers among the greybeards.
I went back to community college on a post-9/11 $3,000 tax credit for job retraining to learn computer programming. Since I already had an A.A. degree, I only had to take the programming classes to get my A.S. degree. That took five years to complete. At the beginning I couldn't get some classes because there was too many students. Towards the end I couldn't get some classes because there weren't enough students, as healthcare became the new money major. After working six years a video game tester, I went into IT support. A decade later I'm working fewer hours per week (my employment contracts prohibit working OT), making more money and paying more in taxes.
Can always import cheap labor to tend to the elderly.
Or build robots like the Japanese.
If aging is resolved, why would you retire?? Slave forever!
For most Americans, retirement is not an option. This will be glaringly obvious in 2030 when the baby boomers are retired, the workforce (tax base) is smaller, and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare.
Spectacular lack of imagination. Good job. Keep masturbating to your 1950s space fantasies though.
I'm still waiting for my flying car and Venusian girlfriend.
So your coworkers are Trump supporters? ;)
Aging, yes. What to do after your retirement funds run out before you can live an extra 30, 40 or 50 years? No so much.
That list looks like everything that was promised at a 1950's World Fair Expo.
We got an internet badass over here!
We got an AC posting a useless comment over here!
Believe it or not, most white people know that "Los Angeles" and "San Francisco" are spanish names.
The people who scream "go back to your own country" are the same people who don't know squat about the area that they live in.
So you and your reconquista friends can fuck off. We've had it for over 150 years.
Charming.
We've had it for over 150 years.
And Spain had California for nearly 300 years. Your point?
That's not my experience, and not only did I work on contract for several years, my wife works on contract, and several of my friends work on contract (all in technology).
I work for a contracting agency on long-term assignments. Contractors with proven track records get a lot perks toss their way.
The fastest way to catch my attention is to send an email. I got 20+ recruiters calling me each day. It's easier to keep my cellphone turned off.
You know, dismissing the intelligence of people who disagree with you is one of the main reasons you leftists are so hated.
What makes you think I'm a leftist?
I notice you didn't say a word about the treatment of Allied civilians by Japan, because it doesn't agree with your narrative.
That's your narrative, not mine.
The Chinese were paid for their labor and then went home afterwards.
I'll try to remember that the next time I visit China Town in San Francisco.
What happened to Allied civilians who were in Japan when they sneak attacked Pearl Harbor? Oops, they went into internment camps too.
That justifies violating the constitutional rights of American citizens of Japanese descent by locking them up and confiscating their property? That mistake cost taxpayers $1.6B in reparations.
http://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees
BZZT BZZT INCONVENIENT TRUTH, DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE
You're stupid. No surprise there. :)
What's SUPPOSED to happen is that they're supposed to be oppressed victims, racism, blah blah.
Never mind that the Chinese built the western half of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century, and the Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps in the 20th century.
Though, California has a higher-than-usual Hispanic population, so maybe nationally the % of Hispanic AP Exam takers is less than 7.
You're be surprised by the number of white people who are clueless to the fact that California once belong to Mexico and most cities have Spanish names (San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles).
Why don't non-whites want to live in their own countries?
So you're willing to move back to Europe and return North America to Native Americans?
[...] they will pick a path of less resistance by choosing a different major.
Did it ever occur to you that minority students might have a different focus than white students?
Meanwhile, black students may also be inclined to give back to their communities by pursuing traditional fields. "If you're an African American who majors in math, you're more likely to become a schoolteacher. If you're a white male who majors in math, you're more likely to go on to grad school in business or to seek out higher education opportunities," Carnevale explained to The Wall Street Journal. This doesn't mean black students should stop being teachers, said Carnevale. Instead, colleges need to expand their career counseling to boost awareness of other majors and what they earn.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-arent-black-students-picking-majors-lead-high-003356529.html
I am a white male who was unemployed until recently. I have a pretty nice resume with a couple of degrees. I found it difficult to find employment simply because I am a white male.
I would suspect that your "pretty nice resume with a couple of degrees" was probably less than stellar. Degrees don't matter as much. Experience counts a whole lot more these days. Blaming diversity programs for your lack of employment opportunities is a cop out.