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From: jocoats@amoco.com (Jack Coats)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 11:41:18 CDT
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FYI, I was told that at one time a buggy whip manufacturer was in
     the Dow Jones Industrial average.  Only in the last few years
     has the DJ Transportation average been calculated, prior to that
     it was based only on Rail Roads.

Does Automation take jobs away? IMHO, yes.  It also creates them.
Sometimes more jobs, sometimes fewer, sometimes higher paying,
sometimes lower paying.  It also brings opertunity for the new
as well as the problems of what to do with the old.

The only constant anyone can consider is that things change.

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