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Concerning Future Jobs: We Have Been Warned

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Posted By: DW626, 10/30/2025 1:46:33 PM

While campaigning in Derry, New Hampshire in 2019, Joe Biden suggested that coal miners simply learn to code to transition to “jobs of the future.” Joe said, “Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn to program as well.” He made that remark almost five years ago. Little did he know he was flirting with the future, sending a warning about the characteristics of future jobs. Naomi Mitchison published a book in 1935 entitled We Have Been Warned. That title expresses Joe’s sentiment perfectly. Although Joe didn’t specifically cite Mitchison, he nevertheless sent a warning

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 10/30/2025 4:20:52 PM (No. 2023712)
Fabricating things by hand is also an alternative to the assemble-it-yourself, flimsy furniture coming from China. The Amish (the real kind) make beautiful pieces of furniture from solid American wood that last forever. There will also be work at struggling small farms that can't afford the big, fancy machines that the conglomerates use. Actually, writing computer programs is not that bad.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Sunhan65 10/30/2025 5:18:37 PM (No. 2023742)
Surely not THAT Warren Beatty. (And, yes, I will stop calling you Shirley).
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JHHolliday 10/30/2025 9:19:50 PM (No. 2023861)
I would suggest that CEO's and mid-level managers will be around for awhile. Handling people is not something that can be easily automated. Empathy and training from your boss can't be done without at least some human intervention. Even blue collar jobs like someone rewiring your house or crawling under houses to find and repair a leak. I also don't see a good automobile mechanic using it to take your engine apart and put it back together being out of a job. Maybe 50-100 years in the future but not in our lifetimes.. They will, however, use advanced technology to point out the problem. We now use smart machines to do a host of dangerous jobs or those that don't require human intervention. I am not going to fly on a robot airplane. The pilots may use autopilots while they take a break but I want them in the cockpit if a problem arises.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RussZilla 10/31/2025 7:26:41 AM (No. 2023962)
My mechanic, who’s close to retirement, had to get used to his workers using their phones. They weren’t texting their girlfriends, he found out, they were looking up parts numbers, and locations of the computerized stuff in the cars they worked on. Fixing a car has come a long way from the backyard swingset shade tree operation of my younger years. LOL
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