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RE: nbcnews.com asks: When customers can skip the cashier line, what happens to the nation's 3.6M cashiers?
I agree that they'll find other work.
In Victorian times, vast armies of clerks were employed because they had to do all correspondence by hand. Then a new fangled machine was invented - the typewriter. That meant one clerk could do what 10 did previously.
There used to be a vast army of domestic servants. But then washing machines and vacuum cleaners were invented. So the former cleaners got jobs as secretaries using those new fangled typewriters.
As one industry dies, another is growing.
Also, demographics mean that the chances of mass unemployment due to these upheavals is reduced as there are fewer young people entering the workforce.
Ya, exactly.
And nobody knows where exactly the clerks go and exactly what type of work and opportunity flows out of the typewriter. We just know having a typewriter is better, and now the economy is better.
And wherever exactly people go, their options are better and more fruitful than than if the economy was worse 😃
I guess some people don't appreciate how dynamic and hive mind it all is.
No one person can ever know where economic resources and attention should go. (If they could, then we should have a dictator.) The best solutions emerge, out of the combination of everyone's behavior. One thing builds on another thing, and the process is way smarter and better than what any one person could have known.
So asking for a description of how it will go down... is just begging people to look at it in a messed up kind of way, and not useful at all
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