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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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.
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Actually, I know two people that are mail carriers that have advanced degrees. One was a respiratory therapist for 20 years, and accepted a retirement package from the hospital. He then went on to work for the post office for another 20 years and just retired from there this year. The other was a software engineer who got tired of playing the corporate game and quit. He got a job at the post office as a fill-in while he was starting his consulting business, and decided to keep doing it while running his business, since rural carriers only work about 4 hours per day, he can still get quite a bit of programming work done in his off hours.
Shari