Another example of how technology is killing us

http://www.businessinsider.com/yuri-milner-retail-jobs-disappear-2012-9

there will be “a pretty significant job loss in the retail sector to the tune of 40 million jobs in the next 20 years," according to Chrystia Freeland at Reuters.

What's going to cause that?

Milner estimates that right now, 6 percent of retail sales is done on the web, but that number will spike to 20 percent in the next decade. It will be 50 percent in two decades, he said.

Yes, I am bringing up this problem again because I can assure you the people who own the world are thinking about how to handle it.

What happens when there no one left with a job to buy this crap. Henry Ford at least had the good sense to pay his workers well enough so they could afford to buy the cars they were making.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:What happens when there no one left with a job to buy this crap. Henry Ford at least had the good sense to pay his workers well enough so they could afford to buy the cars they were making.

I dont know, but you may have just given the only answer to the problem.

because the gov cant fix that. unless they create a society much like that orwell cartoon, what was that about a farm or something?

don't worry... a global economic collapse will allow the united nations and the world central banking system the latitude to fix things. if you aren't on board with this solution... you're part of the problem.

PkrBum wrote:don't worry... a global economic collapse will allow the united nations and the world central banking system the latitude to fix things. if you aren't on board with this solution... you're part of the problem.

Oh that's right we live in bizzaro land. It's a place where government screws up allows 911 to happen in spite of them being fully funded and having numerous agencies watching out for such things and after their dire failure they demand more money and even more power . FAILURE = SUCCESS is the new government double speak.