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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by robert_foss on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:30AM (#15432701)
Even if there is such a group of people, unable to learn a new trade, surely they're not the majority. So there is lots of room for improving the situation.

There are lots of stories of American coal miners going into tech when the mining jobs dried up. But their process of getting there is through charitable organizations, not a proper educational program.

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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by megaman22 on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:26AM (#15432943)
There are vested interests in promoting those sorts of stories, as a counterpoint to the depressing reality that far more drop out of the economy onto the disability rolls and slowly or quickly drink and drug themselves to death.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by rjsw on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:29AM (#15432962)
Coal mining was (and is) tech, so it shouldn't be a surprise that some workers can move into another area of engineering.
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