Like ATM.

In the end it's pure Econ-MBA-accounting: and a further reduction of the kinds of jobs ~ checkout, for which a certain large segment of any population is.. well suited. All those who really Cannot accumulate and absorb the massive amount of excruciatingly trivial details of the techno-Way of digitizing all things of life:

These are the lawful prey of the callow-MBA and his Hey! Look-at-Me! Cost-saving proposals to management.

So then - where shall These People go?
Is guaranteed perpetual poverty our solution for all those who can be excellent craftspersons, say - but not parse Boolean menus?

Hmm - maybe they could be retrained to do COBOL, per another thread. I can see my excellent mechanic now... locked in That classroom.

Me? I usually go where there's a person involved: may be my last chance each week! - to see anything but machines in 'stores'. Or banks. Or -
(Let's not even think about the 'middle-class' - umm is that where we assign the sterotypical-PHB? - who prolly could Not put tab-A into slot-B on a bet, when that becomes: the only next opening for him.)


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