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The Mass Production article should have made it obvious to people that machines are going to be taking your jobs. Why not find a different profession while you still have the chances to do so. It is like saying, I am going to go down with this company and still try to be successful. It just doesn't make any sense.-- Paul Kim | The Mass Production article should have made it obvious to people that machines are going to be taking your jobs. Why not find a different profession while you still have the chances to do so. It is like saying, I am going to go down with this company and still try to be successful. It just doesn't make any sense.-- Paul Kim | ||
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| + | Paul, I think the situation was that these people had been working factory work all their lives. The idea that the very objects they would build would one day erase them from existence was too much for them to handle, so they refused to accept it as a possibility, or rather, an inevitability. Just think of the workers who went from making cars by hand to constructing them in an assembly line. I'm sure they wondered if work was to become that mechanized and automated, what would be next? -Cash | ||
