On CBC News of February 8, 2017, they announced that in the last four years, seventy thousand jobs in manufacturing and farming, have been lost to technology, in Canada alone. One forty-seven-year old sheet metal worker, who had once made $37.00 an hour, was struggling to support his two daughters on Employment Insurance and struggling even more, with his self-esteem, or lack of.
As Charlie Chaplin said in, The Great Dictator, "Machinery that creates abundance has left us in want."
The trouble is, it needn't be that way and we "can" do something about it.
Steve and John
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