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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (46256)	6/18/2013 2:43:15 PM
From: sm1th	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TimF Respond to of 85487

an engineer produces some type of 'goods" in the end, does he not? so does the tattoo artist in your example. His customers must value the "goods" provided since they willingly pay for it. A little over 100 years ago, most people worked in agriculture, very few worked in manufacturing. Tractors and other mechanization of agriculture freed up millions of people to work in other, higher value fields, many in manufacturing. Over the past 50 years, automation has freed many from the those jobs and allowed them to pursue other opportunities. Just as many struggled during the early years of the industrial revolution, many are struggling with the current transition. There is nothing inherently superior about manufacturing jobs, and in fact many are rather miserable. Mind numbing repetition in hot loud environments. We should celebrate the elimination of the need for people to do those chores. I have no doubt that in the relatively near future many of today's services jobs will also be automated, it is already happening. People should always do the most valuable tasks and let machines do the things which they can be made to do.