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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by reemrevnivek on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:59AM (#2858989)
When they have no marketable skills, they'd better learn some. In the absence of mental or physical handicaps, I don't see any reason why people would be incapable of doing this.
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by bdr on Monday August 08, 2011 @02:12AM (#2859013)
It seems like the mental/physical floor required to get a job is getting higher.
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by tomjen3 on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:04AM (#2859115)
The physical floor has crashed, actually. Today a man in a wheelchair can contribute meaningful work.
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by bdr on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:09AM (#2859590)
Only above a certain mental floor. Calling it a floor in general is oversimplifying, it's a curve (Stephen Hawking, football player).
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by protagonist_h on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:18AM (#2859487)
i would say "education floor" is getting higher. very few jobs fully utilize human mental capacity.
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by nodata on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:03AM (#2859578)
Why marketable skills? Why not useful skills. I find the focus on marketing as much as a problem as everything else.
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by forensic on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:05AM (#2859456)
Education is expensive and hard. If the people at the top don't reach down with a helping hand, few from the bottom will be able to stand. Is this the world we want to live in? Social Darwinism?
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