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TheMastersNemesis

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Sun Nov 29, 2015, 10:48 PM Nov 2015

Within 10 Years Most Workers Will Be "Task Rabbits". R. Reich. [View all]

Beware of the new economy now facing most workers in the longer term. The trend is to make most jobs contingency or contract jobs just like Uber. Employers are more about getting rid of jobs rather than creating more jobs. And they are on a roll to eliminate jobs that have the traditional protections that jobs used to have

Such trends mean major job "insecurity" for most workers and virtually no protections. What we see is Reagan hath wrought and intended in the 1980's. I do not understand why workers are willing to accept this fate and remain so anti union.

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Thank you. Kath1 Nov 2015 #1
I wrote something very similar just under your post lunatica Nov 2015 #6
actually, given the number of guns in this country, there will be revolution before that roguevalley Nov 2015 #67
The US is turning into just another shit corporation for many people, definitely RKP5637 Nov 2015 #2
Reich and others have been warning of this for some time. When will people believe it, appalachiablue Nov 2015 #26
It doesn't matter if we believe it or not. Most people can't save a million Nay Nov 2015 #59
Tell me something I don't already realize, the wrath is also unnecessary. appalachiablue Nov 2015 #62
Exactly n/t easttexaslefty Nov 2015 #63
It will be as few jobs as is possible after computers do most of the work lunatica Nov 2015 #3
So pathetic, and it is future USA. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #5
Absolutely right. Kath1 Nov 2015 #17
That's rotten LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #35
We had the same thing happen greymattermom Nov 2015 #37
That would make a nice OP in the California group KamaAina Nov 2015 #51
People performing low-skill, repetitive tasks, for little or no pay? Nye Bevan Nov 2015 #4
Wait, wut? By Jove... Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #9
Thanks for making me spew my Diet Pespi onto my keyboard n/t SickOfTheOnePct Nov 2015 #10
ROFL Definitely a DUzy. Live and Learn Nov 2015 #21
I look forward to the time robots become our overlords and give us a merciful death. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #7
Naw lunatica Nov 2015 #8
If robot labor is cheaper, then it follows that maintenance robots are cheaper than humans. Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #12
Well unless we all just die they gotta find something for us to do lunatica Nov 2015 #13
That's a question for our silicon based replacements. Carbon is so Cenozoic nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #14
The large scale die-off has been on the drawing board hifiguy Nov 2015 #49
In essence, in a warped way, humans are robots now. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #33
Obsolete robots. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #40
Definitely, quite true! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #44
Obsoletely Fabulous! Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #52
... RKP5637 Nov 2015 #53
Leela: "Oh lord, he's made out of wood." hifiguy Nov 2015 #56
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Nov 2015 #16
A love song! nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #18
Gogol Bordello Supertheory of Supereverything Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #20
You'll get as much cake as you like MowCowWhoHow III Nov 2015 #30
I'm looking forward to the Robotic Union riots... Javaman Nov 2015 #42
It Is Why Lower Unemployment Rates Ate Misleading colsohlibgal Nov 2015 #11
Except median pay is increasing and uninsured numbers plumetting whatthehey Nov 2015 #15
:facepalm: jeff47 Nov 2015 #19
+1000 nt Live and Learn Nov 2015 #22
It in large part depends on when you are measuring from mythology Nov 2015 #28
How much has the cost of public education increased? How are pensions doing comparatively? JonLeibowitz Nov 2015 #31
That's because the ever-wealthier 1% are skewing the median numbers LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #36
And if we go back to 5000 BCE, median income has increased massively!!! jeff47 Nov 2015 #41
K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2015 #23
To be followed by complaints that Americans "aren't spending enough!" hatrack Nov 2015 #24
I saw a report on the local news tonight bitching about that very thing DebbieCDC Nov 2015 #25
^^^ This ^^^ cantbeserious Nov 2015 #27
Exactly!!! Just keeping up buying food is outrageous. Crap way over priced. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #34
and need to cut up their credit cards, the greedy little things! MisterP Nov 2015 #45
Robotics and automation aside Populist_Prole Nov 2015 #29
What does it have to do with Reagan and the 1980's? The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #32
Dip Shit Reagan Proposed A "Service Economy". It Was Code For Eventual "Task Rabbit" Jobs. TheMastersNemesis Nov 2015 #38
Robert is a prophet. kentuck Nov 2015 #39
He got fed up with Clinton's duplicitous horseshit. hifiguy Nov 2015 #48
Fewer workers, fewer benefits, fewer pensions = higher profit % for investors. But hey---Didn't WinkyDink Nov 2015 #43
No society can bear that kind of systemic insecurity. hifiguy Nov 2015 #46
No kidding - TBF Nov 2015 #47
The source of the majority of the world's problems is capitalism. hifiguy Nov 2015 #50
Yep, and I would also add to that religion. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #54
Without question. hifiguy Nov 2015 #55
Should have outgrown by now? The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #57
Science was perking along rather nicely hifiguy Nov 2015 #58
Civilization is a resource concentration mechanism The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #60
Rational people would have discarded hifiguy Nov 2015 #61
Well said! mdbl Nov 2015 #65
There you go with the should's again The2ndWheel Dec 2015 #69
Oh, the Horse Collar, Horse Shoe, Hay were NOT major discoveries? or they just helped the poor... happyslug Nov 2015 #66
Roll back the Reagan De-Revolution. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #64
Not slaves. Octafish Nov 2015 #68
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