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Tierra_y_Libertad

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4. "Labor saving devices" are really "Labor replacing devices".

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 01:28 PM

Jul 2012

I just watched a documentary about why Mexicans come to the USA to work. It focused on a small agricultural town in Mexico that used to produce pork, wheat, beans and strawberries. After NAFTA, they can no longer compete with American imports because they don't have the technology that American farmers have. So, Mexicans are buying American produced pork, wheat, beans and strawberries. What to do for the displaced workers? They go to America to find work.

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When Machines Do Your Job [View all] Flaxbee Jul 2012 OP

As a machine tool student just as CNC was beginning, we asked this question. Gregorian Jul 2012 #1

My husband visited Chinese manufacturers about 15 years ago, and then about 5 years ago ... Flaxbee Jul 2012 #2

I feel like apologizing for my repetition regarding this subject, but Gregorian Jul 2012 #5

Yup. moondust Jul 2012 #8

Absolutely FreeJoe Jul 2012 #3

"Labor saving devices" are really "Labor replacing devices". Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #4

It'd be a good thing if our entire society wasn't built upon... Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #6

The future? Spike89 Jul 2012 #7

You're right on to the issue. There is an insurmountable and fundamental failure in our currency Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #11

Kurt Vonnegut addressed this 60 years ago. sadbear Jul 2012 #9

Do you see the irony that they published this as an e-book? randome Jul 2012 #10

Will everyone be one thing in a world like that? The2ndWheel Jul 2012 #12

Huge social/philosophical questions you've raised Spike89 Jul 2012 #13