Italian Grocer Deploys ‘Scan and Bag’-Style Technology

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105. Thanks for an honest answer. That's a rarity in society now.

At the dawn of the Internet age we were doing everything but sweeping people off the streets for all the new jobs. When manufacturing computers was in the US they were scooping up the unemployed for that, too.

"Technology can't be stopped." Neither can an armed revolution when you're dealing with tens of millions of unemployed people. The Middle East just learned that the hard way. When populations in the West gets tired of being made redundant, it'll be even worse.

Slowing automation, stopping offshoring, none of that has as drastic consequences as the kind of mass redundancies we're seeing now - and the violence, starvation and war that said mass redundancies will cause. see: Youth Bulge. You do what you have to do to keep the masses employed or you may find yourself dealing with a failed state. Ask Tunisia about that.