On May 28, 10:13 am, Richard McBeef myway.com> wrote:

Ummm...yes. But that isn't exactly responsive to the point he was
supposedly addressing. The point is that if cheap labor isn't
available, than other ways will be found to accomplish the same thing
- the result is that labor is replaced by technology and (some) people
lose their jobs.

Does anyone think it was coincedental that the word processor emerged
right at the same time as the "9 to 5" secretarial movement
(popularized by Dolly Parton)? I clearly remember how difficult it
was to find competent secretarial help in that period. Once I learned
the word processor, I no longer needed a secretary. End of problem.

But also...ummm... the end of untold numbers of secretarial jobs. Of
course women then moved on to other exciting employment oppotunities.
Wal-Mart anyone?

Where does Hayes think the young 19th Cent. chimney sweeps went? To
school? To Little League? Their moms taking them to soccer practise?
How about to coal mines and factories - or begging on the streets. It
was a period when it was still necessary for children to work if they
were to survive - just as they had down through the millenia.

In Pakistan when young women were tossed out of "sweat shops" to
satisfy Western sensibilities they ended up on the streets begging or
as prostitutes.

I wonder what Hayes thinks a marginally competent 20 year old, who
slept through highschool and who has virtually no skills, should make?

Fred Weiss