Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen

Re:Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @05:12AM (#5096412)

In the UK there is a show called "The Jeremy Kyle Show". where stupid ugly people come on stage to blame each other for various family squabbles in the name of entertainment.

I caught 30 secs of it just after watching the OP video and realised that the old refrain "stealing our jobs" is not true - the Jeremy Kyle show fodder did not and would never have a job as a short run PCB manufacturer.

I do not know how we will share the wealth that the next generation of technology will generate, but I do know that 100 years ago Britain nearly revolted against a social system where the upper classes "worked not nor did they sow" - and now we shall have a class of people who cannot work nor sow.

It's an old meme in HN it just hit me this morning a bit harder

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Re:Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen by UweSchmidt on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @08:37AM (#5097010)

I believe that in former times the number of uneducated people with few skills were much higher than today. Unlike today there were plenty of jobs for those who had no education nor skills. Only the difficulty with finding gainful employment for those people - and the need for founders, makers etc. - draws our attention to them in the first place (a microtrend of glorification of those people through shows like the one you've mentioned nonwithstanding).

Regarding the upper class who does not work that maybe the trust fund kids?

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