These changes didn’t just affect blue-collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs or the internet.
– President Barack Obama (HT: RealClearPolitics)
They obviously don’t dispense wisdom and knowledge at Harvard or Columbia like they used to. Here we have a man who prior to being elected President of The United States, obtained a law degree from Harvard. Along his winding journey to the pinnacles of American achievement, he also collected a noxious gallimaufry of profoundly mistaken notions of how technology effects the world around him.
Yes, over time, technology replaces outmoded and inefficient processes with more automated and effective alternatives. It must be a terrible existential punch in the gut to be told that a machine or algorithm does whatever you do for a living more advantageously. Count me as one who personally empathizes with the beleaguered travel agents, but who doesn’t buy Barack Obama’s Neo-Marxian velleities of the intellect at the expense of logic and truth.
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