[ExI] roboburgers to go

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Sep 27 07:58:41 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
> Virtually everything I know, particularly mechanical skills, is
> obsolete. Who needs to rebuild a carburetor? Set the points in a
> distributor? Replace the vertical amplifier in a TV with magnetic
> deflection?
<snip>
> I am hard pressed to
> think of a skill I could pass on to someone of that age.
>


Perhaps that's why the US has 50 million living on food stamps.
They have developed a society that doesn't need to employ their people.

And Europe is in much the same condition.

This leads to the much discussed 'end of work' situation.

BillK



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