07-10-2017, 05:41 PM
(07-10-2017, 04:52 AM)gstanford Wrote: Keep right on mocking ignorant troll. Its already happening and your ignorant braying in the face of your betters (the authors of the report above) won't stop it.
Yes, I'm obtuse.
Don't understand that in the US, where the average wage is $44,000/year, the masses aren't about to rise up and revolt against their oppressors like McCowen has been saying for years. After all, they can't afford a BMW or Lexus car, who wouldn't want to take on the National Guard for that? The Nappa leather seats are so supple and their butts have been chafed raw sitting on their inferior Chevy Malibu seats.
And I can't see the robot revolution happening in front of my very eyes like you and SickBeast say is going on right now. Neither of you has posted any links to significant numbers of jobs being eliminated in the retail or driving industry, but it will be happening any day now just like your alarmist Chicken Little articles hypothesize.
Common themes in your/McCowen's/SickBeast theories:
1. The rich man is out to screw or exploit us.
2. The government is out to screw or exploit us.
A. For you and Sick Beast, it's not your government or economy. While I get what goes on in the USA is a little more interesting and important than your homelands, you'll have to pardon me if your assessments in regard to what is going on here don't shape my world view. I get up and watch the news for a few hours every day and have somehow missed the revolution and robot apocalypse news.
B. There is no doubt that low skill jobs are stagnant here, but the number one employer by numbers (retail) averages $25K a year and the second biggest employer by numbers averges $20K a year. Not many people here actually make minimum wage for full time work, and if they do, it isn't for very long.
C. Robots will continue to make inroads into the labor market as they always have, but their will be no "all driving and retail jobs end within 5 years" like you and SB say will happen. If you two are so sure, how about a gentleman's wager? Let's use one of those escrow services, my bet being "On July 10, 2012 at least 50% of the US retail and driving jobs will still exist. If less than 50% of the jobs exist, I will pay SB and GStan $100., if more than 50% of the jobs still exist, SB and GStan will pay Rollo $100.". $100 is not a lot of money these days, and it's $200 for me and $100 each for you. Care to put your money where your mouth is? I even spotted you 50% lower impact than you put out there.