Our future workers

Excellent essay from Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club:

The Fearful Future
An advertisement for Momentum machines is likely to strike fear among those who are enrolled in the 10 most worthless college majors. Momentum has a machine designed to replace fast food workers capable of serving 360 hamburgers per hour. The sandwiches emerge fully assembled, with bun, relish, sauce and patty at �gourmet quality�. For it can grind and chop its ingredients fresh. It never forgets to wash up. Always adds the right amount of seasoning � or perhaps the customer would like to adjust it himself. It is designed to replace the armies of low paid workers, for whom a fast food job is an entry level position and � for some � a career. Founded by engineers from Berkeley, Stanford, UCSB, and USC, Momentum is looking to hire a few good people, namely: a mechatronics engineer and a machine vision specialist.

Thousands displaced. Two hired.

Richard's essay is excellent - he closes with this thought:

The Left is and has always been a regressive ideology which relies in �progressive taxation� to pursue a 19th century dream. Marx couldn�t even imagine that dream. He lived a world where have two or three suits of clothes was a big deal. If you look about your home and consider which of the plethora of consumer items was invented under socialism it would be a very short list. In product innovation, America produced Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and thousands of others. Socialism brought forth Mikhail Kalashnikov.

So true and the proles are clueless as usual. This is the first drop of the tidal wave that is going to sweep over them.