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Software Is Eating the Job Market

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Re: Software Is Eating the Job Market

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Post by mason240 »

rewqfdsa wrote: post #3
gchokov wrote: post #2

America has the most job openings in 15 years - http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/09/news/economy/us-job-opening-...

Not per capita it doesn't. Come on, that's a novice error.

Every election since 2000: "More people voted for {Bush, Obama} than any President in history." There's more total voters, so...

Re: Software Is Eating the Job Market

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Post by hittudiv »

Nothing new.. If i can replace a security guard of my office for a cheaper more efficient, less error prone, robot/software instead of a human for half the price, WHY NOT! The exact same philosophy goes into "software is eating the world".

Re: Software Is Eating the Job Market

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Post by hittudiv »

But again, there is no shortage of engineers as the article says. The only problem is the quality. Atleast from what i saw in India people just take computer science as a degree because it pays more, not because they love to code.. There is a problem with this kind of people. People who LOVE what they do always over take people who dont.

Re: Software Is Eating the Job Market

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Post by toomuchtodo »

hittudiv wrote: post #7

Nothing new.. If i can replace a security guard of my office for a cheaper more efficient, less error prone, robot/software instead of a human for half the price, WHY NOT! The exact same philosophy goes into "software is eating the world".

It works until you run out of consumers with cash, at which point it no longer works.
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