[ExI] Middle Class Doomed?

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 14:18:22 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> I just found an August 2013 New York Times article entitled
> How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class
> http://nyti.ms/1aEjj5X
>
> The question that this article brings up is whether technological progress
> itself dooms the middle class to types of jobs that are either highly
> creative and highly profitable, or to types of jobs that are service
> oriented, and low paying.
>
>

This article strikes me as very similar to the article referenced by
Anders earlier.
<http://theconversation.com/machines-on-the-march-threaten-almost-half-of-modern-jobs-18485>

Computers are going to be taking over a lot more jobs as their
intelligence increases.

BillK



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