> From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a gadget - > a new computer program, let's say - that allows us to > replace computer programmers with this program. Would > you argue that the government should stop us from > using that program? If yes, why? If no, then, how is > offshoring to India different _in its effects_ from > that invention?
Within the next twenty or so years, almost all jobs that are done now will be done by technology. The unemployment rate will balloon as we approach the singularity. There will be no service jobs. Machines will do better work cheaper with less errors. There will be no White-Collar jobs. Technology will be cheaper, faster, better. The Economy will collapse and their will be two kinds of people: Rich people who own everything, and poor people who own nothing. What keeps the rich people from deciding to be rid of the poor people altogether? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
