Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!slf From: slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Re: Does someone REALLY belive this? Message-ID: <855@teddy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 12:52:34 EST Article-I.D.: teddy.855 Posted: Thu Nov 8 12:52:34 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 05:59:06 EST References: <1668@ucf-cs.UUCP> <382@hoxna.UUCP> Reply-To: slf@teddy.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 19 Xref: godot net.college:216 net.flame:3090 In article <382@hoxna.UUCP> kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee) writes: >xxx >... Also, skilled positions are being replaced by semi-skilled or unskilled >jobs, which deteriorates the quality of life in this country. I >think too much weight is being placed on short term local productivity >gains, without looking at longer-term, society wide, problems >produced by mechanization. > >Ken Lee >hoxna!kfl But look at the other side of it. Does it take more skill to program a computer or to print forms? As the demand for hi-tech equipment increases the demand for people to design and program this equipment also increases. This whole process stimulates the economy which we need in any case. If we stick to the old ways of doing things we become a stagnate culture while the rest of the world is advancing. "to stand still is to go backward" Scott Fisher