Technological Advances Could kill 5 Million Jobs By 2020

Blackleaf

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Two hundred years ago we had Ned Ludd and his followers take care of such matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

 

Walter

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Here, we are 16 months away from 2020 and there are more jobs than people to fill them. Progs and their think-tanks are always wrong.


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MHz

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Here, we are 16 months away from 2020 and there are more jobs than people to fill them. Progs and their think-tanks are always wrong.
Perhaps your post should be made 16 months after 2020 when the unemployment is running 50% or more.

You version would have them classified as useless eaters. The money saved in wages can be given to them as 'holiday pay' rather than shithawks like you being the only ones to be able to 'take a holiday'. Try Israel, make it one-way ticket as your posts show you don't have Canada's best interest at heart but you sure do love them no matter what. You would be as welcome as an Ethiopian Jew.
 

Curious Cdn

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...more low paying, Service Sector jobs than ever! Now, if we can do away with all of that "miniumum wage" nonsense, we can get them back down to a dollar a day! Make Tim Horton's great again!
 

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The Govt already subsidizes workers in the Hotel industry so immigrants are cheaper to hire. If you want a job ditch your 'membership' and get reclassified as an immigrant.


Hey Walnut, if your case was so truthful you should be able to more that hit the red button. What a low-life and that goes double for the ones that you admire. lol
 
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Walter

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Perhaps your post should be made 16 months after 2020 when the unemployment is running 50% or more.

You version would have them classified as useless eaters. The money saved in wages can be given to them as 'holiday pay' rather than shithawks like you being the only ones to be able to 'take a holiday'. Try Israel, make it one-way ticket as your posts show you don't have Canada's best interest at heart but you sure do love them no matter what. You would be as welcome as an Ethiopian Jew.

So much hate.
 

MHz

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Who is still paying minimum? Even McDonald's pays $25K+ year for full time after 3 months probation.
Really, you got a link because this link is only 2 days old so how many hours would be needed to clear $25k in a year.
https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/McDonald's/salaries

So much hate.
I've never denied that I hat liars, that you have bedded down with them makes you one of them. That is why your posts look like some girly man has made them while watching Sesame Street.
 

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If they eliminate 20 million jobs and create 40 million then it makes sense.
 

MHz

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How about 2M vacationers instead of 20M 'dead-beats' as anybody without a job is deemed to be even with a stagnant economy. Stop the immigration and how many Social workers would be out on the street?
 

Curious Cdn

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If they eliminate 20 million jobs and create 40 million then it makes sense.

Sure, eliminate 20 million $25 per hour manufacturing jobs and replace them with 40 million part time sub-minimum wage gigs delivering for Alibaba while using their own cars and fuel.


If you think that I am joking, ...
 

Curious Cdn

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Pt timers.

That's all that is being offered. Company's like that intentionally limit the hours that employees work so that they are not on the hook for any benefits. Fast food outlets, retailers would rather fill up their entire schedule with part-timers than to provide things like Health plans. It's the future of most of the work force. Part-timers payed as little as is legally allowed (could be peanuts if minimum wage legislations are struck down) and the employer has zero responsibility to their employees.
 

Curious Cdn

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Five million fewer customers. The ai trend will strangle capitalism, as we think we know it.

The future of Capitalism is Neofeudalism in which almost all of the wealth is held by a tiny but powerful elite and the rest of the population owns nothing, has nothing and are serfs living at the pleasure of the elite. The Middle Class is history and so is democracy.

You think that this is some sort of dystopian fiction? In fact, it is the default form of governance for our species. We are not collaborative by nature. Almost every human government, everywhere in time and place has been a pyramidal Thugocracy.
 

MHz

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Think of it this way, you have no job but you have an income and an university education and a long list of available hobbies and vacations include traveling the globe if that is what you want. Are you starting to see the picture or do you only see what happens to people here who are already out of a job?
 

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I've been hearing that argument for 30 years, but it doesn't seem to be holding water. The more scientific we get the more fraudsters come out of the woodwork, necessitating more law enforcement, guards, wardens, parole officers, psychiatrists, probation officers, etc. etc. etc. Probably a lot of good jobs being traded off for useless jobs! :) :)