Techonlogy and jobs

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594298-effect-todays-technology-tomorrows-jobs-will-be-immenseand-no-country-ready
 
Articles like this one completely freak me out. I feel like I'm living in a middle aged panic attack.

I continue to like you despite myself, Drewfx1.
:-)

This puzzles and worries me a lot.
I often say that soon the only "normal" jobs for ordinary folks left in Europe is cutting each others hair and changing each others diapers in senior homes. Everything else can be made cheaper by robots here or by people somewhere in Asia.
 
Globalisation is changing everything so rapidly and violently. Very low paid service branch jobs and signifigantly more demanding specialist jobs leave a huge gap between them. USA is in a little better situation, because there you have all the energy sources, oil, gas and minerals within your own borders.

According to them.
 
According to this:
http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-Career-Changers/dp/1580085415
 
My butt is burning on the way down, there is no parachute, because there is a hole in it.
 
I always figured I could make more money being a comedian than anything else. I just have not proved it yet.
 
 

Of course The Economist suggests that the solution to the problem of cybernetic/robotic labor taking all the jobs is for governments to invest in education for their population. While I am sure many of us who are tired of hearing the sad tales of displaced Nigerian PhD's driving American taxicabs, would prefer to hear it in unaccented English from unemployable American PhD cab drivers, I am not sure that education (or even targeted job training which is largely replacing education in American universities) will go very far toward making every person employable. The effect of higher levels of talent and education required for jobs in the new economy, has been to raise the entry level for an average worker. When IQ 100 and 2 years of junior college becomes the equivalent of IQ 85 and the ability to find the right end of a shovel, half the population will need to look for employment in sheltered workshops.
 
Or we can re-examine the whole concept of funding the future on the quaint concept of working for a living.

gswitz
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594298-effect-todays-technology-tomorrows-jobs-will-be-immenseand-no-country-ready
 
Articles like this one completely freak me out. I feel like I'm living in a middle aged panic attack.

Nothing new, really. It's always been like that.
 
This world has been run and controlled by feudal lords for thousands of years, and nothing has changed. The money always goes to one area, and if you took your Sociology 101 class, you know that 3% of the people control 97% of the economy.
 
And the companies all buying out the smaller ones is a part of the plan. You marry off the ugly daughter to that idiot over there and his property and money is now a part of your conglomerate.
 
If you think, with a socialist/democratic ideal of some sort, you will be highly disappointed. From my days of Fascism in Portugal/Spain, to the coup in Brazil, to the senseless killing in America of peace advocates, there is only one group that is defending their right to be in power, and in places like Latin America, these folks are vicious and they don't care what happens to the peons!
 
Just remember that. Don't think that the drug wars in Latin America is just about the drugs! That's grossly naive! It's about the power involved and having enough of it, so you can control more and benefit from it.
 
Now, why the fudge would you be surprised by that? It's no different in America when these companies keep getting bigger so they can get the government to protect them, and they do not have as much liability when it comes to screwing the peons.
 
Heck, the law allows it. The law is designed to protect the rich and those in power!
 
But think about this one. In Spain, if you buy a house and you lose it, because you can't pay for it, you are still liable for the total amount of money that you owe. You not only will never buy another house, you will make sure that the rich f----- keeps getting paid ... and that rich f----- was the guy that made sure you lost the job and the ability to pay for the house! It's been like that in Europe for hundreds of years.
 
Stop fooling yourself!