[ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)

[Greg]

I would rather work at MicroCenter or CompUSA  " Hey, you want some RAM with
that pc ?" or "Hey, wanna super-size that hard drive ?"

Greg

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> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)
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> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Mike Panetta wrote:
>
> > I was actually trying to be broad in the "companies must have employees"
> > part.  But to be more to your point, what if all the fast food joints in
> > the US suddenly decided to replace all the workers with robots that cost
> > say $100k and could replace everyone thats required (except the manager)
> > in a franchise to operate it, IE the cooks, the order takers/cashiers,
>
> I always wanted to be a fry cook. ;)
>
> > and the drive through person.  It could do all these jobs cheaper and
> > faster (more efficiently) then the people it replaced, and it only cost
> > around $20-$50K a year to maintain.  That would make people like me
> > happy, because I am partial to robotics (I actually work for a small
> > robotics company), and I could probably get a repair/programming job
> > pretty easy.  But what about all the other people that got replaced?
> > For the most part they are uneducated or not motivated in any way, so
> > they could not get jobs fixing robots (or anything else technical I
> > would imagine).  What do you think that could do to the economy?  Now
> > (and I know this is harsh, but just for the sake of argument) think of
> > forign labour as the robots.  They are cheaper then us, and can replace
> > anything we do (barring repair jobs or whatever requires you actually be
> > at the location).  Now where are we?  (forget the part that they may not
> > be as efficient, or as fast as us as that seems to be irrelevant to
> > companies anyway, as they only care about cost)
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 23:17, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > > I think that you are missing most of the spectrum.
> > >
> > > Even if ALL of the IT jobs were to leave this country, I
> doubt "no one" would
> > > be able to afford software. Foriegn cars (in my experience)
> are usually
> > > better made - even to this day (ok limit this to Japan and
> Germany, and
> > > exclude many VWs and Audis).
> > >
> > > I believe history showed that industry can leave places like
> PA and Detroit,
> > > and we can still have an economic boom in the future (late
> 90s). America
> > > seemed to go from agriculture - to industry - to IT (not a
> history major over
> > > here) and I believe that we can go "to infinity and beyond."
> > >
> > > I don't believe that foreign policy (exporting labor,
> importing goods and HB1
> > > issues) are the leading cause of our economic swings.
> > >
> > > Drew
> > >
> >
> >
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