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        <title><![CDATA[The future]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I always wonder at the notion that all we need to do is re educate the population and the jobs will be there for the millions of people working in the positions that were and will be eliminated. There is no stopping the progress and we wouldn't want to but the idea that we can train millions of CNC workers to fix the unemployment problem is simplistic at best. Each new automation job will replace multiple traditional manufacturing/maintenance/transport positions.We went from an agrarian society to an industrial one a century ago where we needed a larger workforce. This is the polar opposite.I would love to see some serious studies done on what the world would look like with half of its population unemployed. It is something that deserves much more forethought than humanity has given so far.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rnicola]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:16:37 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Its all down hill from here]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12541-84154]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The only consolation is if anyone thinks its bad now, they have not seen anything. Its going to get so much worse in the coming decade. As always the excuse will be well people are just not trying hard enough, look at me I did just fine. People just love to make up fantasy why they (a very small minority) did well while all others fell to make it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiljoy616]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:23:15 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Automation *and* out-sourcing *and* lack of training are the issue]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a multi-prong issue of a jobless recovery - automation has it's place in the line of blame, but it's far from being the only reason!  You simply cannot discount the impact that out-sourcing of manufacturing jobs to other countries spurred by cheaper labor, fewer environmental limitations, and corporate tax breaks to do so, has had on this situation.The hollowing out of the manufacturing base in America took 20 years; with each and every recession forcing companies to find cheaper places in the world to produce products, and a stock market that expects high profit and increases, even in the fact of a slower economy, the base of work available in this country will take years if not decades to rebuild.  Some of the jobs no doubt will be filled by entrepreneurs starting their own companies, but also by existing companies investing in the economy here, not just in their own corporate wealth.Right now, there is also an unprepared work force for the jobs that are now much more technical due to automation.  You can see it even now as companies begin to rebuild manufacturing in this country... there are thousands of CNC manufacturing jobs going unfulfilled because there are not enough properly skilled workers to fill them.  And that's not the fault of automation... it's a training gap, and an easy one to fill.  Provide the training for people, and the workers will beat a path to your door for these jobs.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[anisahmichael]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:14:15 -0800</pubDate>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:30:15 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[DIY not for everyone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm an entrepreneur and I'm doing all right. But over my career, I've also worked as a college professor. Something I noted back then which has stuck with me is that only a fraction of the students I had then, had the necessary personality traits to be an entrepreneur. And yet, Entrepreneurs and Mondragons (co-operative entrepreneurship) should be viewed as the future of work and business.The number one trait I see for an entrepreneur is the enjoyment of solving problems and the problem solving skills that go with it. What ever your product/service idea is, it is likely the solution to someone else's problem, and that will be your business. Even so, there WILL be problems developing it and the successful entrepreneur is someone who can foresee a number of these problems realistically and thus avoid them, but is also mentally nimble enough that they can also handle the unexpected problems in a timely manner.In today's and the future's knowledge economy, problem solving is and will be the number one key to success. Therefore, you should enjoy it if you want to be successful.However, my students, and many of the people who would like to work for me now, lack this sense of pleasure. To them, if they even have the ability, solving problems is painful drudgery. I'm not certain, but I suspect the problem lies with our assembly-line education system. However, I also recognise that even if we alter our education system to encourage people to find the joys in solving problems, there will be a significant minority that will still be poor problem solvers and hate solving problems.As a society, we need to find some method of resolving this issue.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mheartwood]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:46:19 -0800</pubDate>
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