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The subject quotation is from the editor of Diario Libre a newspaper in the Dominican Republic. It might be applicable to our own country right here in the USA.
"Young people should become entrepreneurs as fewer jobs are to be found".
I need to give this a little more thought but it might be very close to the truth.
But of course it's true....Mass production,machinery,computer programs,robots... The days of a ditch digger are over. Life has changed and low skilled work is slipping away day by day.. It's 2014 not 1914 things have changed...
The thing is that even entrepreneurship has a limited entry and global companies rule the roost via country leaders..
The powerful control everything of value,,,IE. Apple has a larger corporate economy that all of Russia,,It is not alone in this respect......
There is a citizen shift where thru governments these big corporations keep the less useful on a stipend and nothing is going to change that... The good old days,might have been not that good,but they're gone,,there's simply way to many people walking the earth,,,it's out of balance...How that is corrected or plays out,,,,I haven't a clue...
That's something you don't hear on the news,,,,corporations and their governments see to that..
lighten up and keep applying, you sound like every newly unemployed/laid off person. plan to be laid off at least 3 times in your life and transition skills.
The latest studies show that 40% of the jobs people do today won't exist in 20 years, and eventually most forms of labor will be obsolete. Humans will have to find something else to do with their time besides work.
The latest studies show that 40% of the jobs people do today won't exist in 20 years, and eventually most forms of labor will be obsolete. Humans will have to find something else to do with their time besides work.
But you can also say that many jobs people will do in 20 years do not exist today. I can actually name a few roles in IT that didn't exist 8-10 years ago.
That said - I think one of the contributing factors is population. Which will probably cause more problems than just lack of jobs.
The latest studies show that 40% of the jobs people do today won't exist in 20 years, and eventually most forms of labor will be obsolete. Humans will have to find something else to do with their time besides work.
It would not surprise me if 40% of the jobs that existed 20 years ago no longer exist today, as technology has advanced many different jobs have disappeared, but new ones appear to replace them.
It would not surprise me if 40% of the jobs that existed 20 years ago no longer exist today, as technology has advanced many different jobs have disappeared, but new ones appear to replace them.
The new jobs are far fewer in number than they ones they made obsolete.
Example: Let's say self-driving vehicles hit the market and are a successful product that renders truck drivers obsolete. You might say, "No problem, because that creates an additional need for people to engineer these self-driving cars." But there are 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States who will no longer have jobs as truck drivers. Do you think all of them will be turned into engineers? Not a chance! The number of additional engineers needed will probably be 100 or 200, and we'll bring them in from India or China.
The new jobs are far fewer in number than they ones they made obsolete.
Example: Let's say self-driving vehicles hit the market and are a successful product that renders truck drivers obsolete. You might say, "No problem, because that creates an additional need for people to engineer these self-driving cars." But there are 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States who will no longer have jobs as truck drivers. Do you think all of them will be turned into engineers? Not a chance! The number of additional engineers needed will probably be 100 or 200, and we'll bring them in from India or China.
You mean like the internet was going to replace all the salesmen in the world? Or like robots were going to replace all the maids in the country? We were not going to be fighting wars with any kind of human involvement any more? Those were all things I heard constantly 20 years ago.
So far technology has only succeeded in taking boring mundane jobs and made it easier to work with people around the world. But it has also created a very large industry in IT where there were only a few involved in computers 20 years ago now it seems like half the people I know are involved, social media is something we never heard about 20 years ago but now you have companies with whole departments of staff working on social media marketing.
Also as technology has improved we are slowly seeing companies bringing back manufacturing, simply because paying a handful of people decent wages in the US to run production equipment is getting to be cheaper than shipping supplies overseas and than shipping them back as finished products even with paying next to nothing for the workers overseas. Call center jobs are coming back from places like India as companies have figured out that a large segment of the market is demanding to speak to people in the United States, those centers though are going into low cost of living places where $8-9 an hour is a decent wage.
Imagine a robot who can provide hairstyling/barbering services...
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hmmm..
