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    #51
    Originally posted by Jog On View Post
    No they won't

    Today they might be. This inability/refusal to see past the immediate future and think a bit more long term is part of the problem.

    Do you not see automation happening on a pretty large scale (I assume you work in IT)? Where do you think it is heading?

    Amazon makes first drone delivery - BBC News
    History shows technology has always created jobs, why would it be different this time ?

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      #52
      Automation is expensive and its level balances the availablity of (cheap) workers. British factories are less automated than French ones, as evidenced by our lower productivity.

      Automation isn't going to put large numbers of people out of work because it would be cheaper to employ at least some of them as human robots.
      Cats are evil.

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        #53
        Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View Post
        God, sounds like some Orwellian, dystopian scenario.

        Added to that, the safespace snowflake generation will be running the show.

        Wonder where free speech will be then?
        You only need to see how far Jack Straw and Tony Blair fell from their left wing freedom principles to know the snowflakes will turn into fascists at the first sign of power...

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          #54
          Originally posted by bobspud View Post
          Economists are no more use than a high priestess reading runes...

          One might argue that readin pig entrails has more integrity...
          so that was what CMD was doing, trying to get the entrails out of the mouth.
          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #55
            Originally posted by Platypus View Post
            Scotland, for example?
            Maybe Eire & Holland?

            Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #56
              Originally posted by vetran View Post
              My naval training tells me not to that link

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                #57
                Originally posted by PhiltheGreek View Post
                My naval training tells me not to that link
                yep the taxpayer is getting screwed by the EU.
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #58
                  Originally posted by PhiltheGreek View Post
                  My naval training tells me not to that link
                  Bad memories of getting caught motorboating....?

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                    #59
                    Originally posted by greenlake View Post
                    Bad memories of getting caught motorboating....?
                    Nothing bad about a walk down mammary lane

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                      #60
                      Originally posted by vwdan View Post
                      That makes no sense. Inflation is a concern, of course but people say that about minimum wage too.
                      What I mean is - if I do nothing and get paid 12 grand but if I get a job and get paid 16 grand - in real terms I am only 4 grand better off than the guy who sits on his arse doing nothing.

                      Therefore all prices will take into account that you get 12 grand for zero productivity and so my 16 grand becomes 4 grand.

                      A very simplistic way to look at it but as soon as someone can put zero in but take something out somewhere along the line the system will fail.

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