Originally posted by pintohoo
"Leave it to the market. It’ll bumble it’s way through, but large parts of the outcome will be satisfactory. "
unfortunately that will not work the way we like it to -
our 'market' - meaning our companies have truly showed their colours over the years --
take one example --- education -
business will NOT educate their own - they just will not do it -
they wait until they have a shortage - then, they look for 'experienced' people -
if they cannot get them in Australia - then, they go for them from Overseas - which gives everyone here a reason to bitch.
For the future - before we get to the point where machines do everything - we are going to be on a downhill slide where we use humans --
the slide will be - perhaps higher numbers of higher and higher educated people -
then, after that lower numbers - dwindling to almost nothing as the machines take over all of the thinking -
unfortunately there is only one group that can do anything at all about that - and, that is the political sector -
business - ie. the market - will just desert us when there is no profit in us.
here's an interesting article which touches on just a little of it
disallowed/business/the...p-to-nor-are-the-experts-20181012-p509a9.html
what the article misses for us is that companies move to locations that favour them ----------- it's really that simple -- and, what's not simple is that it's not just tax regimes that attract them - it's a basket of things - bit advanced thinking for our pollies though
this is the sort of stuff that should be on the plates of politicians - not crap like blokes or non blokes winning races
I didn’t say it would work the way we want it to, just that it will be generally satisfactory. Not brilliant, not disastrous. If the government get involved it will be disastrous, just like the education fiasco you mentioned.
Businesses do not educate, because they cannot in a meaningful fashion. They are forced to use TAFE or other training schemes which are expensive and ineffective. They’re usually a decade or so behind current technology. Which means that you end up with someone who has a piece of paper necessary to do the work, but needs training properly on how to do it. We can train people to splice optical fibres. We’ll do it for free! OJT. But we’d need rocks in our heads to take a TAFE misqualified output and give them a $20k splicing machine and a 64 core cable to patch in. First we have to untrain them .......
The govt. can’t do basic technology planning. It certainly can’t do social engineering planning.
