Hi,
This blogger has a favorite saying. NO ONE IS PERFECT. Now that works both ways. No it's not bilingual !!!!!!!! It means that NO ONE IS PERFECTLY GOOD OR PERFECTLY BAD !!!!!!!!!! And so it was for the New York Times this week with NYT conservative columnist, Ross Douthat, this week ENTITLED, "A world without work"..
This blogger rarely agrees with the NYT. these days BUT IT'S NOT PERFECT and Ross Douthat's column on the job-market drop outs rang a bell. He pointed out that the DECLINE IN WORK AND JOBS "isn't unemployment in the usual sense"...."It's a kind of post-employment, in which people drop out of the workforce and find ways to live, more or less permanently, without a steady job". Unfortunately, Douthat goes on to explore only briefly the reason for the change and fails to mention the TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION changing job needs and reducing the needed work force but only alludes to it so he can praise the socialist programs now in force to take care of the "blue collar workers" being displaced.
Too bad Mr. Douthat didn't do some more homework on the displacement of agricultural workers, small businesses and farmers after the Industrial Revolution and a look at the jobs and prosperity that created eventually. The same category of people, whom he calls blue collar workers today, are now being displaced by the Technological Revolution and will as during the Industrial Revolution need RETRAINING but for technology. He spends a lot his column blathering about Utopian ideas of most citizens never having to work. That seems to be inherent in the ideals of socialism. Never having to work like the wealthy Romans. Problem with that ideal is the trouble the Romans got into being idle !!!!!!!!!
However, Utopia as the Romans found out, is an illusion resting on the edge of complete failure. Yes, technology is creating a work gap so that now machines are run by other little technological forces or apps. So, retraining is needed, but what do we retrain folks to do ????????????,
BUT AND THIS IS A "BIG BUTT" !!!!!!!!!!! THE WONDERS OF THE TECH WORLD ARE IN THEIR INFANCY WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ADDITIONS ARE ON THE HORIZON AND WHAT JOBS WILL BE CREATED OR DESTROYED BY THOSE INNOVATIONS AND WHAT JOBS WILL BE CREATED WITHIN TECHNOLOGY AND HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST !!!!!!!!!!
EVERYONE IS AVOIDING THE ARTICULATION OF THOSE PROBLEMS. BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY KNOW YET AND WHO WANTS TO BE THE DUM DUM THAT ADMITS WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS WE'VE CREATED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well Mr. Douthat's answer seems to be to continue to provide subsidies (same socialist answers even from NYT's supposed CONSERVATIVE columnist to any problem) for those with little income and provide social gatherings for the lonely (and educate the grateful into socialist thought ????????) that would replace the community of family, religion, work, and neighborhood that he claims is "a piece with the broader turn-away" from these elements of declining social interaction. He says: "In a sense the old Utopians were prescient: We've gained a world where steady work is less necessary to man's survival than ever before."
This blogger has other ideas. LET'S GET BACK TO ESSENTIALS !!!!! PROVIDE MORE COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS IN RELIGION. BOOST FAMILY VALUES SO THAT THEY ONCE AGAIN GAIN IMPORTANCE. AFTER ALL PARENTS TEACH THAT !!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RENEW NEIGHBORHOOD INTERACTION-- knowing your neighbors creates interested NEIGHBOR watchers. ONE OF THE BEST DETERRENTS AGAINST CRIME !!!!!!!!!!! THAT PROVIDES SAFETY. RELIGIOUS OR COMMUNITY EVENTS can provide social dinners to help budgets of the unemployed !!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT ABOUT THE FOLKS WHO LIKE TO WORK ???????????? WHO LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE ?????????????? WHO HAVE A LOT OF TALENT ???????????? PUT THEM OUT TO PASTURE LIKE DOCILE COWS WITH NO MILK TO GIVE ???????????? How about you, Mr. Douthat, when your newspaper column is no longer existent ?????????? Looking forward to keeping your opinions to yourself ?????????? Or maybe your blog will be enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not a good answer ?????? Well, you're clever. You'll think of something--you can always join a social group !!!!!!!!!!!
SO WHAT TO DO ABOUT EMPLOYMENT ?????????? JUST ACCEPT THE FACT THAT HALF THE POPULATION IS NOW USELESS ?????????? PUH..................LEEZE, GIVE ME A BREAK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT TO DO???????? RETRAIN FOR WHAT WE KNOW WILL BE NEEDED IN THE TECH FIELD AND BE PREPARED TO SET UP COURSES REGULARLY FOR NEW AREAS. NOT EASY BUT NECESSARY. CURRICULA IN COLLEGES AND TRADE SCHOOLS WILL HAVE TO BE MORE FLEXIBLE. Government (whoops!) work benefits WILL HAVE TO INCLUDE NEW TRAINING EVEN IN FIELDS THAT ARE KNOWN WILL BE TEMPORARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW TRAINING WILL HAVE TO BE CONSTANT AND BECOME ONE OF THE BIG EMPLOYMENT FIELDS FOR TECHNOLOGY AS IT INVENTS FOLKS OUT OF A JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MR. DOUTHAT, THIS BLOGGER THINKS YOU NAILED THE TOPIC BUT FEELS SOME EXPANDED THINKING IS IN ORDER NOT ONLY BY YOU BUT THE MOVERS AND SHOVERS (NOT SHAKERS) OF OUR WORLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL TECHNOLOGY TURN US INTO A NATION OF INDOLENT WHO SCAVENGE FOR EXISTENCE ?????????????
THIS BLOGGER THINKS NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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