Friday, June 27, 2008

Darfur and Beyond

What I find crazy is that there are some people here that are really bad off and there are no commercials for them. All the commercials that urge people to do something to "make a difference" are about foreign places, minus the commercials about Katrina victim's which only come on NBA TV now. What about poverty in the United States? What about the violence in Chicago? What about all of the killings in the Brownsville and Bed Stuy sections of Brooklyn NY that don't make the news? What about the masses of teenagers not finishing high school? What kind of jobs will these men and women of the future generations have when all of the manual labor jobs are gone become all of the manual labor becomes automated? Meaning when the machines that are being made now to do the jobs that un-educated people do for low wages are put into effect where are the un-educated people going to work? Some people think that automation isn't going to happen or it isn't going to affect them, I say to those people, Home Depot has instituted the self check out line in many of their stores since 2003 and the bottom line behind that is less employee's needed, therefor less money spent on labor and essentially more money saved. They say that it just gives them the opportunity to have more staff on the floor, don't let them trick you.

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and if you think that they are the only ones doing it maybe you should check out the Pathmark on Broad street in North Philadelphia or just pay attention to Pathmark's everywhere. The goal is to have the every check out line become a self check out line; scary.

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