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Originally posted by sperbonzo
You must be really young....they were saying the same thing in the sixties about the turn of the century (now).
Believe me, people will always find a way to do something for personal profit. You may very well find that the "personal touch" will become a highly prized commodity in the service aspects of industry......creative skills will become more developed....etc,etc,etc.... "Experts" have been trying to perdict this for 50 years already and they keep on getting it wrong. I personally think that exactly the opposite will happen, and that with the internet encompassing more and more of the planet, there will actually be LESS socialism, more entrepeneurs that can reach a world wide market via the net, that the free market will prevail to a much GREATER extent than now.
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You didn't quite read what I wrote, did you? I'm not saying the free market will disappear... it probably won't. However, the free market is based for a large part on efficiency. Automation brings efficiency, outsourcing to third world countries brings efficiency, getting rid of unneeded jobs brings efficiency. Obviously, this efficiency costs jobs.
For instance, within a few decades cleaning machines will be able to operate without human supervision. Another few decades, and these machines will be cheaper than human cleaners. Since the free market is based largely on efficiency, these human cleaners will get fired. Now, since they're not really skilled, they could do factory work... oh wait, machines will be doing that by then. How about farm work then? Oh, crap, the machines again. Etcetera. Jobs are disappearing as we speak, and there simply is a limit to the amount of non-skilled work that needs to be done.
Ofcourse, entrepeneurs, lawyers, scientists, marketing people, etc will still be needed, maybe even more of them, but not everyone has the capacities to do that kind of highly skilled, creative work.