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Comment by Ensorceled

There are a fair number of comments dismissing this issue with a "retrain or get left behind" and expressing not a lot of sympathy for those who don't.

Remember, the average IQ in the US is just below 100[1]. Exactly what kind of jobs do you expect to retrain these people for? And how are they equipped to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?

Most of these jobs provided on the job training or apprenticeships so it's not even a matter of "they did it once they can do it again".

Also, many are battling obesity and related illnesses such as diabetes or struggling with mental illness and/or addiction.

We need a systemic overhaul of the economic system and soon. Self driving vehicles will put 3-5 million out of work in the next decade.

[1] https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country#

parent Ensorceled 9 years ago

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