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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's silly. It's cart-before-the-horse. Said mailman doesn't work there (drone creation/sales/maintenance) because there wasn't a demand for it when he was job-huntng. There's nothng stopping him from doing so after (not that I see drone-delvery eliminating that many postal service jobs).
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There's everything stopping him. Creating and/or maintaining drones (machinery) requires some level of education. If he had that, or could have had it, he would never have worked as a mailman. He would have been working as an engineer in one field or another.
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Things change. Always have. Every innovation since the dawn of man has cost some people their job/position--while creating different (and usually more) positions/industries to be filled by the next generatin of job-seekers. Why suddenly start crying about it?
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The problem is that the jobs created are very often on a much higher level than the ones that are eliminated.
Where are you going to put waiters to work, after the waiter robot is introduced? As dishwashers? Nah. Already a machine for that. Bus/taxi drivers? Nah. Cars are automated already. Mailman? Mwoah. Amazon automated that using drones. Mechanical Engineer / Software Engineer to create all of these devices himself? Forget it. He doesn't have the education, for whatever reason. No money to study, or not enough intelligence to study at the required level.