Chris Smolinski escribi=F3:
 > Supply and demand plays a huge role in determining pay. Lots of
 > people can wash dishes, fewer can do engineering work, fewer still
 > can throw a ball through a hoop from many yards away.
 >
 > One issue that has been pointed out in several books is that more and
 > more, jobs today require specialized skills and (mental) abilities,
 > vs years ago when most work was physical labor. Not everyone is
 > capable of learning the skills required for these jobs. Fewer jobs
 > will exist for the  people left behind. We may already be starting to
 > see this happening.

This is something in what I think a lot... we (engineers or similar) =

have to continue studying in order
to keep our engineer status and specialization status. =

What will other people do when they don't get a job due to their lack of =

experience? will the be
hired anyway and then trained? this could take months or even years... I =

doubt it.
Then , if they don't find a job, who or what will give them food, =

shelter, comfort... ? This happened
with industrialization , many people lost their jobs because they were =

replaced by a machine.
Which will be, as humans, our next step? try to avoid this? try to =

minimize collateral damage of
an inevitable matter?

Another thought is that if we, as humans, don't find a way to learn more =

in lesser time what will be
our future? a person would have to study 40 years in order to understand =

their current worlds tech in
order to use it, improve it, modify it?  Sounds like a topic for a =

horror movie, isn't it?


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Mauricio Giovagnini (Maunix)
www.maunix.com.ar
Cordoba, Arg.

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