Friday's Canadian job report is NOT good news!

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Curious Cdn

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It's going to get worse. Automation is about to hit all sorts of sectors from accountancy to truck and taxi driving. It's not the Chinese, not the Mexicans doing that. It is us doing it to ourselves with our own technological excellence. The problem is that our system has not caught up with the problem of suddenly having to care for what has historically been the most productive part of our civilization. Our vestigial Calvinism won't allow us to pay people to do nothing but both white collar and blue collar jobs are falling like bowling pins, never to be replaced and, unless some provision is made for those people, they will tear the whole edifice down, someday. Trump can't do bugger all to turn it around but those angry, disenfranchised workers have been conned by him into thinking that he can ... hence the scapegoating of Mexico, etc.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
It's going to get worse. Automation is about to hit all sorts of sectors from accountancy to truck and taxi driving. It's not the Chinese, not the Mexicans doing that. It is us doing it to ourselves with our own technological excellence. The problem is that our system has not caught up with the problem of suddenly having to care for what has historically been the most productive part of our civilization. Our vestigial Calvinism won't allow us to pay people to do nothing but both white collar and blue collar jobs are falling like bowling pins, never to be replaced and, unless some provision is made for those people, they will tear the whole edifice down, someday. Trump can't do bugger all to turn it around but those angry, disenfranchised workers have been conned by him into thinking that he can ... hence the scapegoating of Mexico, etc.
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But someone has to build/repair all those robots.
 
Angstrom

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We will be forced back to living off the land. It's a depression.

Or it will lead us to a war that will reduce the population drastically.

Or both
 
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Curious Cdn said:
It's going to get worse. Automation is about to hit all sorts of sectors from accountancy to truck and taxi driving. It's not the Chinese, not the Mexicans doing that. It is us doing it to ourselves with our own technological excellence. The problem is that our system has not caught up with the problem of suddenly having to care for what has historically been the most productive part of our civilization. Our vestigial Calvinism won't allow us to pay people to do nothing but both white collar and blue collar jobs are falling like bowling pins, never to be replaced and, unless some provision is made for those people, they will tear the whole edifice down, someday. Trump can't do bugger all to turn it around but those angry, disenfranchised workers have been conned by him into thinking that he can ... hence the scapegoating of Mexico, etc.
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The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
 
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In the end, nature will win. Survival of the best will not be denied. It is the law of the universe.
 
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Johnnny

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Part time work sucks because the wages are weak, and the hours arent that many. With the cost of living going up, every penny begins to count. Its no wonder that a lot of people now are taking money out of their rrsps to pay bills with no hope of replacing the money theyve withdrawn.
 
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