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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (216758)	2/12/2013 10:42:55 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541635

That is because new forms of physical labor were needed---running the spinning machines etc. Now the machines are replacing the need to actually do the physical labor. 2 or 3 computer programers can monitor the robots. And as I said before the humans only get to work at the labor now because they are still cheaper than machines in the developing world. Ad Ed pointed out to you there are numerous instances in our economy of management "managing' their labor forces for peak hours only (which they can do efficiently by the data supplied by computers)---leading to a lot of part time work and loss of benefits. In other words it's a new paradigm for the work force. The only question is whether we decide to manage human obsolescence or not.