Future jobs

[coffee break]

As new technologies emerge, some existing ones fade away. IT jobs would not exist if computing machines did not exist. Typewriters, slide rules, adding machines still exist but their functions have been incorporated into other machines.

[Mondo]

I agree there are different opinions on this... more importantly, I don't want to alienate anyone on a topic like this (and on a site dedicated to cars we all love). None of us have the ability to change it so no sense in pissing someone off about it.

 

As far as middle class jobs being replaced with lower paying jobs, there are many articles on it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-jobs-growth-by-industry-wage-type-2014-6

 

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobs-051306434--finance.html

 

http://nypost.com/2014/06/07/death-of-the-middle-class-job/

[slngsht]

I agree there are different opinions on this... more importantly, I don't want to alienate anyone on a topic like this (and on a site dedicated to cars we all love). None of us have the ability to change it so no sense in pissing someone off about it.

 

As far as middle class jobs being replaced with lower paying jobs, there are many articles on it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-jobs-growth-by-industry-wage-type-2014-6

 

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-recession-tech-kill-middle-class-jobs-051306434--finance.html

 

http://nypost.com/2014/06/07/death-of-the-middle-class-job/

people only get alienated when name calling begins.

 

the jobless recovery mentioned in one of the articles - it's not really a recovery. It's marketed as a recovery, but it's really a market reaction to over supply of money by the fed.

 

I think the lack of jobs recovery is as much caused by government policies that are unfriendly to employment growth, as the blame technology gets. There are all kinds of disincentive for businesses to cross various employee count thresholds. So that drives businesses to find creative ways to not hire.

 

One of the articles points out growth in low paying jobs growing and mid pay jobs not. Wait till the $15 minimum wage is put in place. All of a sudden technology will be blamed for displacing even more minimum wage jobs.