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Thread #161452   Message #3864612
Posted By: Iains
06-Jul-17 - 09:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
Corbyn is off in cuckoo land as per normal.
"Technological change need not herald 'era of mass unemployment'"

I would like to see the nuts and bolts of that explained. I would argue that we are at the forefront of massive redundancies due to computerisation, automation and robotics. Front desk banking is evaporating wholesale and automatic checkouts springing up everywhere. Many traditional white collar jobs are capable of being automated. Even segments of education are more efficiently followed online. All these changes are leading, or have led, to massive redundancies. What professions will utilise this brave new world, of a highly educated workforce that will seek positions in a steadily diminishing workplace?

The Luddites rioted because of lost employment. Seems to me around the corner looms a situation where the average Luddite would be regarded as a scruffy little choirboy compared to their modern day brethren.
Chavs on steroids springs to mind. Perhaps this is why the police is increasingly militarised.

Tech change need not herald 'era of mass unemployment'

Typical Labour ploy. Good soundbite with no attempt to cost as someone else will pay or as good Celts perhaps the debt could be paid in the afterlife. Whatever!-They are distinctly divorced from reality.