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On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:45:34 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:10:25 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:44:15 -0400, wrote:

We are simply getting a lot more work done with fewer workers. That
does not bode well for "labor".

So, training people for the high-tech jobs, the green jobs, the
infrastructure jobs, that doesn't "bode well" for labor? Nonsense.

Training people for jobs that do not exist is not going to suddenly
make the jobs appear.

Please show me where I said "suddenly." So, you don't believe in the
future, and thus we shouldn't plan for it?

There is not much money in "fixing" robots and the controller is going
to be a souped up PC. Not much to fix there either.

Uh huh. So, maybe we can get some undocumented workers to do it, since
you don't want to.

Basically this business has been reduced to cutting open a box with
chinese writing on it and plugging in a part. You don't make much
money doing that and you don't need a lot of training.

Current design criteria is to make a machine that doesn't need much
maintenance and when it fails you replace FRUs, you don't "fix" it?
How many car mechanics do you see these days? Have you even seen a TV
repair shop?
There used to be at least one mechanic in every gas station and a TV
shop in every strip mall. Those jobs are gone. That is just a
microcosm of what is happening everywhere.

Not where I live. I also, however, don't think the solution is "a
mechanic in every station."

What is a "green job"? Cutting lawns? I suppose that will still be
around.
My wife put an ad on Craigs List for 2 $15/.hr "handy man" jobs. She
had over 1000 responses.

Look it up yourself.

We need an immediate, short term job solution on the order of
infrastructure jobs and make-work projects. This will have a highly
stimulative effect on the economy, and other jobs will open up in
support of that. Take the newly opened oil fields in Nebraska. Lots of
secondary jobs have been generated. While it won't solve our energy
problems of using too much oil, it's certainly boosting the local
economy.