Where does this claim originate? I can say from my last 15 years in various businesses, that technological progress has been a virtual non-factor in the workplace. From CNC lathes to workstations, the old shit is used forever.
I'm looking back further than 15 years. I mean, 15 years ago I worked at CVS as a register jockey, and they only started installing the credit card machines you swipe on your own then. Today, I don't even have to be checked out by a human being at the grocery store. We've progressed significantly.
The common goods we need and use have been steadily increasing in price. You realize this, yes?
I don't agree, no. Some things, some foods and resources, yes. Surely you've seen this going around:
This is a 1991 Radio Shack catalog. Almost everything on this page can be done with an iPhone (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-cichon/radio-shack-ad_b_4612973.html), and it would have cost over $3000 then. Today we can do all of this and more for 10% of that.
Australia has tiered minimum wage, here we have people like you arguing we should eliminate any minimum wage. I don't even want to bring up the rich guy who suggested that "mental retards" could be paid $2 an hour.
You do realize that we already exempt the disabled from the minimum wage, right?
As far as actions go, there are any number of things like farm subsidies that can be addressed but for some reason, won't.
It's like some people and railroads. Oldtimey thinking.
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I'm looking back further than 15 years. I mean, 15 years ago I worked at CVS as a register jockey, and they only started installing the credit card machines you swipe on your own then. Today, I don't even have to be checked out by a human being at the grocery store. We've progressed significantly.
The common goods we need and use have been steadily increasing in price. You realize this, yes?
I don't agree, no. Some things, some foods and resources, yes. Surely you've seen this going around:
This is a 1991 Radio Shack catalog. Almost everything on this page can be done with an iPhone (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-cichon/radio-shack-ad_b_4612973.html), and it would have cost over $3000 then. Today we can do all of this and more for 10% of that.
Australia has tiered minimum wage, here we have people like you arguing we should eliminate any minimum wage. I don't even want to bring up the rich guy who suggested that "mental retards" could be paid $2 an hour.
You do realize that we already exempt the disabled from the minimum wage, right?
As far as actions go, there are any number of things like farm subsidies that can be addressed but for some reason, won't.
It's like some people and railroads. Oldtimey thinking.