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Metatone Jumps the Shark II - The Economist on capital, labour and productivity | 7 comments (7 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Metatone Jumps the Shark II (4.00 / 2)
we have resisted technology-driven reductions in employment

Absolute nonsense.  Businesses have replaced their backroom workers with computers since the introduction of the 1401 in 1959.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Feb 25th, 2014 at 01:43:34 PM EST
Re: Metatone Jumps the Shark II (4.00 / 5)
But we still cling to this absolutely specious notion that people must work forty hour weeks to be able to make rent.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Feb 25th, 2014 at 05:50:33 PM EST
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Metatone Jumps the Shark II - The Economist on capital, labour and productivity | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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