Fox News is a dangerous organization; that is, if you care about the objective truth. We are living in the world descibed in George Orwell's book "1984". Except reality is playing out a little differently than the book. Instead of the government controlling everything, things are actually reversed. Fox News is the Ministry of Truth, and large corporations are acting as a collective Big Brother.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Technology is reducing the need for many middle class jobs.
The concept that high technology inventions in computers and machinery create more higher level type jobs has been a working assumption for a long time. For the most part, it has been true. But recently, empirical evidence is showing that high technology (in the form of computers applied in various contexts) are actually eliminating many good middle class jobs at an increasing rate, and that the jobs being eliminated are moving up the hierarchical ladder into fairly sophisticated functions that (used to?) require advanced college degrees.
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