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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
15. It is about more than just education.
Tue May 28, 2019, 08:33 PM
May 2019

Changes must be made to how large companies operate. I have seen the office admin debacle, there were typing pools when I started, data sourcing specialists, today one engineer can do all of that stuff in two hours on a laptop using the newest software. I have seen ten banktellers shrink to one over my adult like, and even the one is idle sometimes because ATMs are handling most of the business.

Large companies push STEM training but the way that it is used is to pit younger workers against older workers, not expand the pie for everyone. And if STEM grads become too expensive, companies outsource the work. It is and frankly always has been about profit for big companies. The difference now is that news travel around the world in seconds, people that hate or are fed up can find like minds all over the world in seconds.

We absolutely have NEVER been at the juncture that we are at today, and I am not sure where it all heads. I have been against colonizing other planets, but as soon as we can we may have to to avoid largescale bloodshed on this planet.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
This is true. PatrickforO May 2019 #1
"Our people better be talking about 'fair trade' as opposed to 'free trade'." mia May 2019 #2
Jobs have been lost while productivity has gone through the roof, Blue_true May 2019 #4
NAFTA did not cost the USA 800,000 jobs. Manufacturing jobs increased from the year it was riverine May 2019 #11
I'm sorry, global trade is important to the world's economy. trump is an America Firster. Hoyt May 2019 #3
Robots and AI are killing employment worldwide, not just here. Blue_true May 2019 #5
they refuse to believe or accept it when informed also JI7 May 2019 #6
I think that they see it. Blue_true May 2019 #7
I'm not sure AI/robots can be restricted. A Guaranteed Income is important, but if we Hoyt May 2019 #8
There are people that are just racists and bigots. They could have everything Blue_true May 2019 #13
If it gets to that point, which I doubt soon, we better be trading in every global nook Hoyt May 2019 #14
You mentioned punch cards and you see what today is like and that did not set off alarms? Blue_true May 2019 #17
It's been over 50 years, and I don't think we are close to mass unemployment. Underemployment, maybe Hoyt May 2019 #18
We have never been at a juncture like this in world history. Blue_true May 2019 #19
THIS, and thank you! Our industrial revolution paradigm is changing. Amimnoch May 2019 #9
It is about more than just education. Blue_true May 2019 #15
The issue of trade requires a balanced approach Indygram May 2019 #10
+10000 BannonsLiver May 2019 #12
I saw an ad for a new pickup truck yesterday. Blue_true May 2019 #16
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