Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:53:58 -0500
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Re: AP IMPACT: Recession, tech kill middle-class
 jobs
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Wrong place for a serious conversation I think.

As Kathleen Madigan said, "I dunno, think of something clever, Sparky,
make a sign.  That's what we do back home."

See?  Serious not spoken here.

-- Mike B.

On 1/24/2013 8:36 PM, mark wrote:
> Ok, every so often, I keep trying to start a serious conversation on
> what comes next.  Here's a AP article, and it's saying that what I've
> been saying is under way. Now, what *happens* to all the rest of the
> people: the ones who aren't a good fit with college, and don't really
> have what are considered salable skills *now*... and it's not going to
> get better.
>
> What happens as the tech jobs go away, too? What do we *do* with our
> lives, other than hope we've got enough money to retire - sit around and
> watch TV? And if we don't, what, stand on street corners with "will
> program for food" signs?
>
> On 01/24/13 12:48, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> It's worse than that, Jim, he's dead!
>>
>> Excerpt:
>> Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is
>> terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in
>> developed countries the world over.
>>
>> And the situation is even worse than it appears.
>>
>> Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish
>> as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs
>> aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they
>> aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the
>> service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
>>
>> They're being obliterated by technology.
>>
>> Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other
>> machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable
>> of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades,
>> science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own
>> obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds
>> that the future has arrived.
>> --- end excerpt ---
>>
>> <http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobs-051306434--finance.html>
>
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