The threat of technological unemployment

Re:The threat of technological unemployment by vacri on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @03:00PM (#13265761)

Miners learn 'on the job' for the most part. Obviously the engineers don't, but miners don't go to 'miner college' for a few years to get their certification. So I'm not sure what you mean by 'REAL retraining' - what would suit a demographic that largely isn't interested in tertiary education?

What would you train them in, anyway? There aren't many skilled industries that are looking for that many fresh folks. There's plenty of crappy labour jobs to be filled in places like agriculture, though even these are fading, and only certain places like fruit picking are hard to automate. What kind of jobs do you see this demographic doing?

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Re:The threat of technological unemployment by intrasight on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:07PM (#13266184)

Not at all true. There are LOTS of jobs in the service economy in most any region. Robots won't be building or maintaining the physical plant any time soon. We need carpenters, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, gardeners - the list goes on. The market will do it's thing to match this supply and demand. The successful retraining programs that I've witnessed just use small carrots and sticks to facilitate this transition.

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