Italian Grocer Deploys ‘Scan and Bag’-Style Technology

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109. It would be fine if our advancing civilization was advancing towards

having people not worry about how to feed themselves or keep from living in poverty. Our technology continues to outpace our society's evolution and many people will be freed up not for more productive tasks but to simply be unemployed or homeless.

If this were a country/planet moving toward a Star Trek utopia then yeah getting people out of low level jobs would be great so they could help advance civilization be it through creating art or joining in to create new technologies or care for loved ones, establish deeper communities etc. But that isn't the case our society continues to value more profit over anything else and we seem bent on reducing the programs we offer people out of work.

Where we should be offering more career training to at least give people a chance to go from a job that had very little in the way of requirements to a higher level one we don't do nearly enough. Even that will only do so much as machines continue to put people out of work we just won't need as many people to get more work done and the population continues to grow. People are expected to both live longer and work longer as jobs continue to vanish.