While working for the largest V.A. Hospital in the Country in thelate 70s - early 80s, my boss asked me to write a memo on how many jobs could be eliminatesd if my Department computerized. I was head of Medical Information Technology. I said none, because in my department it would still require imputing information into the computer. But in the private sector, there were many jobs that could be eliminated or reduces in number. I thought to myself how computerization could eliminate many jobs and then after personal computers and then Microsoft came on board it became worse. Computerization helped me do my husbands businesses general ledgers because I no longer had to so them by hand. But I think the internet isn't as easy to support. While you can shop, stay in touch with friends and family, advertise your business. It did away with hundreds of thousand jobs that were no longer necessary and made outsourcing jobs easy. Taking those jobs away from U.S. workers and make us deal with customer service representatives that we can often barely understand. Companies need to take less profit and hire U.s. workers. Your thoughts.
Technology computers is not progress its only a easier FASTER! way to do things and it has bad side affects on others with it extreame results one giant leap for bussness 2 steps back in the grave for humans
From Other People's Money: Danny DeVito's Buggy Whip speech You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best god darn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company?
bussness took away the independent whip from us and is using a new improve correl us into a nwo herd one on us
You should never halt technology just to save jobs. What kind of backward thinking is that? Technology also creates entirely new fields of employment that ultimately replace those jobs that were lost. You folks would have prevented electricity to save some lamp lighter jobs. Do you realize how many jobs electricity ultimately provided?
Despite all that, we are at near record unemployment. The problem we have now is that we don't have people with the skills needed for all the jobs available, not that we have lost our jobs to other countries.
