Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to...
by ChartsNGraffs on Sunday August 21, 2016 @03:06PM
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This is a great point. We spent so much time trying to see if technology actually followed Moore's Law that we forgot the implications of such growth causing the rapid outmoding of people's skill level several times within a typical lifetime.
A lot of these people are older.
Also, it's gotten to the point that the rate of 'disruption' is too fast for a human lifespan.
It's one thing if horses are replaced by tractors in half a human generation. People can adapt to that and even benefit.
It's another if entire industries are replaced every decade.
Once the rate of change becomes too fast, people simply can't 'suck it up' enough to keep up. There are human limits: physiological and psychological ones.