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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I think you're confusing "automation" with "stupid hiring practices" (or meaningless degrees too easily achieved) and corporate bureaucracy.
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Could be. Some degrees are just playing around, even here in the Netherlands. Computer Science isn't one of them (or at least, wasn't when I obtained it).
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Automation isn't eliminatng any jobs.
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Not true. In January last year, I wrote a piece of software for a machine to (re)automate part of a factory. If that machine hadn't been commissioned, the company would have needed to hire four people. This year, the machine will save them around €100K a year, but in essence, I helped preventing four people from getting a job. A low-end, minimum wage job, but nevertheless.
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Technological Automation is innocent--and completely separate from the corporate world's penchant for adopting stupider and stupider (not to mention more and more) bureaucratic policies designed to eliminate the need for management to actually DO anything of any consequence. Think; "I didn't fire you; you fired yourself. Says so here in section 2 paragraph 4 of The Policy Handbook."
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Oh, would that be the reason why management classes in the Netherlands are filled to the brim; because people know they don't have to do anything after graduating? Makes sense.... I should have gone into management instead of actually choosing a profession.
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If anything, it's the "automation" of an almighty, self-governing Policy Buffer designed to keep The Company isolated from having to actually manage its human assets that's at fault, here. Social, bureaucratic automation is the problem, not technological automation. The world's going to policy itself to death. All because people want to follow a pre-ordained flowchart to make decisions for them throughout their work day. "Says right here an MBA is required, sir. If it were up to me, your BA and ten-years experience would be enough, but... policy is policy."
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I think this may be the biggest problem of all: companies trying to hire people with more and higher education for jobs for which it is not required. It's logical that no one can find 'qualified employees anywhere in the country".
On one of the government sites I found that 40% of working people in the Netherlands has a bachelor or higher... and *STILL* companies can't find qualified people? So all the education has apparently become useless.