[Info-vax] OT: How IT Costs More Jobs than It Creates

[MG]

On 26-10-2011 11:54, Neil Rieck wrote:
> How IT Costs More Jobs than It Creates (a reality check)
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38971/?mod=more

	"A new book challenges the standard view that technological
	advances are always good for employment.

	[...]

	Software has directly put some people out of work, as any-
	one who has made an airline reservation or sought directory
	assistance over the telephone may have noticed in recent
	years."

Isn't that rather self-evident and hasn't this been known almost as
long as commercially viable computer systems have existed...?

There are those who would argue that this wouldn't have been a problem
if the West (collectively) wasn't taking in millions of 'new labourers'
to do many of these and soon to be disappearing jobs.  In the meantime,
whatever non-automated jobs are left are all too often deemed 'too
expensive' and "outsourced"/"off-shored": OpenVMS engineering, anyone?

  - MG