Nonsense. Robotics destroyed my home town and destroyed the families and the culture in the hometown. It destroyed the culture of the Arts in America while making capitalists rich. There is a 98 % decline in jobs in the Arts business. I make less than half what I paid my teachers in 1970 dollars and I'm at the top of my profession. Productivity is a mirage for people to hide behind while they steal the competent blind. They are doing it now to the teachers in the schools and returning teaching to the ghetto it was on the Quapaw reservation before my father changed it. I don't know where you get this stuff Tom. I've lived through it several times and the NYTimes is correct.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Walker Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:19 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Skilled Work, Without the Worker Dean Baker's response to that article is excellent: Robots Don't Cost Jobs, Bad Economic Policy Does <http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robots-dont-cost-jobs-ba d-economic-policy-does/print> Print Sunday, 19 August 2012 06:55 <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=120&winname=addthis&pub=unknown&sourc e=men-120&lng=en&s=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cepr.net%2Findex.php%2Fblogs%2Fbeat -the-press%2Frobots-dont-cost-jobs-bad-economic-policy-does&title=Robots%20D ont%20Cost%20Jobs%2C%20Bad%20Economic%20Policy%20Does&logo=&logobg=&logocolo r=&ate=AT-unknown/-/-/503111782124e927/1&frommenu=1&cr=0&uid=50311178e577ed9 4&ct=1&pre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2Freader%2Fview%2F%3Ftab%3Dmy&tt=0> AddThis The NYT had an interesting piece <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-chan ging-global-industry.html?ref=business> on how a new generation of robots is able to do far more sophisticated tasks in factories and warehouses than earlier generations of robots. The piece repeatedly warns that this new technology could cost large numbers of jobs. While one outcome of the introduction of this new technology could be the loss of jobs in the economy, that would be due to inept economic policy. What the article is describing is productivity growth. This is exactly what we should want. It allows us to be richer if we work the same number of hours or to be as rich and work fewer hours. We had very rapid productivity growth in the three decades following World War II. It did not lead to unemployment, but rather to rapidly rising living standards for the bulk of the population. In the last three decades the government has pursued policies that have the effect of redistributing income upward so that the gains from growth are not broadly shared. These policies include a high dollar policy that makes U.S. manufacturing goods less competitive domestically and internationally, a policy of selective protectionism that largely protects the most highly educated professionals (e.g. doctors and lawyers) from foreign competition, and a policy of shifting tens of billions of dollars each year to Wall Street banks through "too big to fail" insurance provided at zero cost by the government. If this new generation of robots ends up making large segments of the population worse off, it will be the result of deliberate policies. It is not the fault of the robots. On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Keith Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Sally. As comprehensive an article on robotics as any I've read. Keith At 12:33 19/08/2012, you wrote: <http://www.nytimes.com/> <http://www.nytimes.com/> This page was sent to you by: [email protected] <http://www.nytimes.com/> Skilled Work, Without the Worker <http://www.nytimes.com/> Advertisement <http://www.nytimes.com/> RUBY SPARKS >From the directors of 'Little Miss Sunshine', starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, & Annette Bening. Watch the Trailer Click here to watch the trailer <http://www.nytimes.com/> Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://www.nytimes.com/> _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework <http://www.nytimes.com/> -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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