Will Your Children Have a Calling or a Culling In Life?
Dave Hodges
TheCommonSenseShow.com
June 7, 2016
This article was not written by a robot, but a few years from now, it could very well be. Multiple media outlets to academic institutions are making projections which speak to the fact that there is virtually no job that is safe from the ravages of automation.
Five Level of Societies Propelled by Automation and Technology
Sociologists tell us that there are five levels of societal development.
1. Nomadic Hunting and Gathering
2. Horticulture and Pastoral
3. Agriculture
4. Industrial
5. Post-industrial.
On man’s climb up the societal evolutionary ladder, every level of society was displaced by the next because of automation.The U.S. labor force has been shaped by century plus of technological progress. For example agricultural technology gave birth to the farming industry and it allowed Americans to move from being a Pastoral society to an Agricultural society. This was followed by Agricultural age giving way to the Industrial Revolution, which moved people into factories. This development gave way to globalization and automation and moved society to a nation of nonproductive people who provide services. Now the service industry is in real jeopardy as most of its jobs have a 90% chance of being replaced by automation.
NPR made a list of occupations threatened by automation. A few of the top occupations that are going to disappear are postal workers, legal secretaries, jewelers, bookkeepers, cashiers, restaurant cooks and bartenders.
The Rest…HERE
