Posted on 05 March 2013. Tags: Jobs, Technology
I’ve always avoided those self-checkout machines because those machines basically cost people their jobs — and it always distresses me that those people who still have jobs in those retail stores encourage people to use the self-checkout lines without perhaps realizing what might happen to their job as a result. And now comes the other job killer: phone apps.
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Posted in General Interest
Posted on 18 November 2011. Tags: Center for Economic and Policy Research, Corporate Greed, Globalization, Middle Class, Organizing, Technology, Unions
It won’t be long before you hear–because it’s part of the framing of Democrats and Republicans alike, and traditional media "analysts" who haven’t a clue what they are taking about when it comes to economics–that unions are in trouble because of the "new economy" (which means, to some people, the industrial base is […]
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Posted in General Interest