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Laurie Blair's avatar

Why be didactic when someone is trying to illustrate that distress can affect people? The pandemic added a particularly hard hit to the economy, along with 40 years of stagnation of workers' wages. It still threatens.

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Elias Bigio's avatar

I may add that the economy will be taking more hits in the near future by having many jobs eliminated through automation. Trucks will no longer be driven by humans but rather by computers. I can see many jobs currently performed by Pharmacist being replace through automation within three to five years.

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Laurie Blair's avatar

Elias Bigio ; That may reduce the tedium of some jobs, but there will be fewer people to buy if too many jobs are eliminated. There will still be a need for humans to fix machines, program and maintain them no matter how sophisticated. Remember that human error can cause them to malfunction too. Mu husband loves the scanning feature added by our local supermarket. He scans items as he fills his cart then, on the way out he simply puts his scanner near another auto check out and he is done. He does have to bag his purchases, but doesn't not have to interact with anyone, or do a 'self check out' near anyone. With the Omicron surge he likes it. I tell him he is taking a job away and he laughs at me.

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Graff, Harvey's avatar

Didactic? Is that what you mean to write?

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