Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What are we going to do with all those people, when there are no jobs for them?

yep.

We need to get past that 'every kid needs a PhD' to make a living.

We end up with 10's of thousands of whinny ass, young adults bitching because they have $150K in student loan debt and can't get a job in Italian Reconstruction History post Roman Empire.

I don't know how many thousands of dollars I've wanted to hand over to people to do work around my place, but apparently no one wants to lay bricks or swing a hammer, and the few that do (and are good at it) are backed up to the second coming.

There has been a lot of talk about the minimum wage and how jobs like those at McDonald's are not intended to support families. I completely agree. But on the other hand I can remember when I was a kid where guys had jobs like working at Western Auto. With that job they supported a family where the wife did not work.

The government has destroyed this country. Our money is worth less and less because of its monetary policies. Taxes are such that more and more of this worthless money is taken by the various criminal...I mean governmental organizations. Unchecked immigration keeps down wages. And so on and so forth.

A bunch of it is because people didn't buy something until they had the money saved for it. I don't feel much pity for some of the folks I hear bitching, when mom/dad and 3 kids are all humping around an Iphone 6, 2-3 cars in the driveway under 2 years old and 7 TV's in the house.

Spending money is a better deal than keeping it in the bank. You get a better return. And don't think that is accidental. The entire engine of this false economy is monetary devaluation and consumerism. Encourage people to save by raising interest rates and otherwise promoted sound money habits, and it all falls apart.

Pay attention. The latest push from the banksters is to do away with cash. The argument they are making is that at 0%, interest rates aren't low enough. They should actually be in negative territory. But as long as people have the option of cash money, they can't go that low because people would just take their money out and keep it in cash before paying a negative interest rate.

Think about that. Cash is the only thing keeping banks from charging US interest to keep OUR money. The world is on its head. Nothing from the old days applies.

Have you seen all of the fees banks charge?

We went to open a local savings account at a bank, they wanted to charge an annual fee. For a savings account? No friggin way. Walked out of that bank.

Hitler didn't do that theory any favors.

I've got a new job at the zoo.....castrating elephants! Pay isn't too hot...but the tips are good!!

Too true, gunwizard.

Read Jeremy Rifkin's book, The Future of Work. That's how it is and ever will be. Any redundant task can be computerized and, thus, automated. 70% of all work in the U.S.A. is of that type. After perusing that tome, read The Bell Curve.

Like Steelhead pointed out, if you ain't at the top of the heap in your chosen tech/professional field, you might better have a very marketable skill.

The tips are from the "circumcision" process.

The recent push for a $15.00 minimum wage will advance even burger flipping into a fully automated phase. No such thing as an entry level job anymore.

Likely fewer will be hired, and it will much harder to advance or reward those that are the best of workers.

With a PhD in hand my career startup did not pay that well.

Income redistribution via the government will continue to grow. We'll have more and more people who simply don't work. They might not have anything to contribute through working, but they still vote and that's enough to get a politician to take your money and give it to them.

It ain't gonna be just manual labor jobs lost to robots. My brother writes programs/software for businesses and he says right now most of the office personnel/white collar positions could easily be replaced by computer. Further, he says a well written, comprehensive program could easily and efficiently replace such as accountants, lawyers, tax preparers, architects etc.. Professionals who ask what are the low skilled laborers gonna do will be able to ask them personally when they're both standing in the unemployment line.

Yes, no, maybe. Computers can't give an opinion on a child custody case or argue it in front of a judge or jury. Computers can't represent you at an audit when the IRS gets after you or call up the state and chat with someone and get a favorable decision when the state revenue department says that you should have been collecting sales tax on those materials. And so on and so forth.

The law is sufficiently nuanced and murky enough that there will always be jobs for lawyers and accountants and the like. Go to five different accountants and get seven different opinions on deductions and the like. No computer can represent you when you sue or get sued.

Of the professionals, the ones that really need to worry are the doctors. There will be a lot of pressure to lower their salaries in coming years and computerized diagnostics, PAs, and nurse practitioners are really going to cut into their numbers.

The only workers that have to worry about their jobs being replaced by computers are those without skills. This is like worrying about all the buggy makers not having jobs when the auto replaced horses.

This has been going on since the industrial revolution, and was the main reason for the emergence of unions and the communist party. People go into business to make money, not to provide jobs and benefits. As technology advances, inventors will develop more efficient and cost effective ways to accomplish routine tasks and operations. Unfortunately, the human being is not one of those.

If or when jobs are lost to automation,the true effect will be tax implications as there are fewer and fewer people contributing into the system now.

tell them all to move to florida

I think it is going to become a combination of Brave New World, 1984, and Planet of the Apes with Obamadeath Panels running at the max full time to handle all seditious objectionists and useless eaters.

L.W.

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