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Survey Reveals Fear Over Budgets, Jobs
Seventy-one percent of the managers said the ability to automate tasks would benefit their schedule...
I bet it would. Picture the mid-level manager who doesn't know the first thing about the tasks that he's managing and is actually only working at the company because he's got an MBA. Hey, I'm just saying that it's been known to happen. That's where replacing the workers with robots and receiving a pictogram based operational guide can make all the difference.
HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot
Unskilled workers will be able to operate the basic functions of the HortiBot within one hour of education and by use of a pictogram based operational guide.
February 26, 2005
Donald Trump vs. The Mandarins
He also said, "Little of what is taught to students in business school prepares them for the corporate workplace. You have to question what goes on in the two years it takes to get an MBA, if someone can virtually be equivalent in two or three weeks. What that suggests to me is that if you take a smart person, and give them a relatively short course, a mini-MBA, if you will, they basically do as well as the MBAs."
Based on the HortiBot, it might only take an hour to learn how to effectively manage the workers of the future. How cool is that!
I'm also trying to see the big picture from the CEO level. It would be a shame to waste the precious resources of this country.
There are millions of vacant unsold homes all across the country. Most of these homes are already hooked up to the power grid. Perhaps we could let the robotic workers of tomorrow recharge inside them at night? It could be part of a government sponsored RARP (Robotic Asset Relief Program).
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 2.8% Year-over-year
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From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 13 April
Helped by the total solar eclipse, U.S. hotel performance increased from
the previous week, according...
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I have a hunch that the "workers of the future" will be those that followed the advice of financial "experts" like Jeremy Siegel, Ben Stein, David Lereah, etc. It's a good thing we didn't outsource our productive capacity to countries where the majority live on a dollar a day. We're going to need those jobs.
The whole notion of putting money to "work" is dubious. Especially when it is done on such a large scale and managed by the greediest and most dishonest.
What a system. And to think, our government is the enabler of the system.
mab,
"The whole notion of putting money to "work" is dubious."
Here's my "sure thing" system that allows a penny to someday buy an entire loaf of bread using nothing but proverbs of the past and dubious modern financial innovation.
Step 1: A penny saved and leveraged 100-1 is a dollar earned, until the entire system implodes that is.
Step 2. Another day, another dollar... leveraged 100-1 to make a hundred.
Step 3. A day late, and a hundred dollars short... leveraged 100-1 to make ten thousand as the entire banking system tanks.
Step 4: Bet your bottom ten thousand dollars at 100-1 on a sucker's rally to make a million.
Step 5: A million dollars in the hand is worth two million dollars in the bush, thanks to the inflation created by massive bailouts. Take what's in the bush to double your money in nominal terms.
Step 6: Man cannot live by bread alone, but two million dollars and a wheelbarrow can buy a loaf if we only partially hyperinflate.
I'm almost afraid to share the system with you. Please don't tell others. If everyone could turn a penny into two million dollars, Step 6 would fail miserably. ;)
Speaking of dubious, I stumbled accross this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odious_debt
It turns out, we may not actually be obligated to pay back any of that money we borrowed from foreigners to pay for the Iraq war.
Green shoots! And I thought we shot ourselves in the foot.
mab,
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction though. At first I wasn't sure but our regime was very insistent. Therefore, we clearly acted in self-defense.
Green sh_ts! And I thought we sh_t ourselves in the foot?
O's go in those empty slots? Seriously? No wonder people have been so optimistic about the economy. ;)
Stag,
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction though. At first I wasn't sure but our regime was very insistent.
Good point. I keep forgetting about the Bush regime's irrefutable insistence. Who pays and how much is a moot point anyway as the war is paying for itself via Iraqi oil revenues. We'll probably even turn a profit, just like with the GSE, AIG & bank bailouts.
Come to think of it, since debt is money, all our problems are money makers. Literally, by definition. We can't lose. It's always a sure thing. As long as we have problems that is. I guess that explains why governments are so incompetent. It's out of necessity.
Problems = green sh__ts! They take time to "grow."
mab,
Unsustainable growth model? No problem!
Scotts Miracle-Gro profit up 33%
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scotts-miracle-gro-profit-up-33?dist=msr_6
"Now here is a lagging indicator you can count on. If you can't afford a new car, if you can't sell your home, or even if you lost your job, you can always return to the basics of nature an create a green space in your own (soon to be repossessed) back yard. Good news at last that won't last." - MrC (in the comment section)
Spammed by flin yet again.
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