roundtable: Curious comment about Job Displacement, CITS

roundtable: Curious comment about Job Displacement, CITS

Curious comment about Job Displacement, CITS

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Wed, 06 Sep 95 13:10:40 EDT 

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Date:         Wed, 06 Sep 95 13:10:40 EDT
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      Curious comment about Job Displacement, CITS
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable - NE <TPR-NE@mitvma.mit.edu>,


THE DE-SKILLING OF AMERICA
"One thing this fascination with computer technology and saving 
microseconds will accomplish is to further dampen earnings and salaries.  
The Luddites weren't quite right.  Technology doesn't necessarily 
displace workers.  First, it lowers workers' ability to demand higher 
earnings.  Computer scanners, for instance, de-skilled grocery cashiers, 
so their earnings haven't kept pace.  Indeed, one of the ironies today 
is how the Vice President can keep talking about fostering computers, on 
the one hand, and then explaining how American families have seen their 
real incomes erode over the past 10 years, as if he were a cybernetic 
Lois Lane, `galactically stupid' and thus totally unable to draw the 
connection." (Telecommunications Policy Review 27 Aug 95 p3)
(from EDUPAGE, 9/3/95)

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