What's to become of the low skilled workers in the future?

[HappyTexan]

Just wait until Obama gives amnesty or refugee status to all those illegals.
We have imported millions of poor, unskilled, uneducated into the US.

[PullMyFinger]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

7 Billion on the planet right now with nearly 1/2 of them being either Chinese or Indian to whom we have outsourced our jobs. Automation will replace almost all low skilled workers. What to do with all of the un-needed humans is a really disturbing question.

When horses were needed for most transportation there were far more than there are today. But I would venture to say that the lives of the horses today are much better than the ones of yesteryear even if the numbers are down.

This ponzie scheme of humanity has to end. Humans with no purpose are not a good idea. Unless you separate them off somehow.

[PullMyFinger]

Originally Posted by alphamale

Better gain a skill.

Yeah sure, 2 billion people going to vocational school.

[kidkaos2]

Originally Posted by Supachai

Ebola is nothing. It's not quick spreading enough to become a major pandemic. Once something like the bird flu crosses over to humans, it'll wipe out a billion of us at minimum. Most won't die from the disease. Most will die from the massive starvation that will come from breakdown of our global transportation system and the worldwide economic collapse that will follow.

I saw a BBC show called Survivors that went into this. On Survivors the mutated flu did end up killing most everyone, but the first episode of the show went into the collapse of society even before the first fatalities happened. I found it very interesting. It never really occurred to me how it really wouldn't take as devastating an epidemic as you'd think to really collapse everything. The disease doesn't have to kill everyone, all it has to do is make enough people sick enough that they can't show up for work for society to stop functioning. Not enough people report for duty at the fire station to put out fires. Not enough people show up at the power plant to keep it running. Not enough bus drivers show up for work to keep the transportation going. Not enough teachers show up to keep the schools open, and then their parents can't go to work either. It snowballs until the cities can't function anymore. The power's out, the water is out, the stores are closed and not enough police to stop looting, etc. Rural areas would be relatively okay, but places like Los Angeles and New York would become deathtraps.