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- Aug 20, 2002
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WNP], you keep dodging the question on this thread as well as your posts on previous threads to which I have responded. Yes, many of us want to use machines doing what humans also do.
We use the ATM instead of a bank teller window. At my bank there are now 50 machines with no lines of humans waiting where there used to be 10 human staffed windows each with lines of 10 or more humans waiting. But there are still five human staffed windows.
At my supermarket there are still the same number of human staffed checkout lanes. But there are a growing number of self-checkout stations. Maybe the staffed lanes will decrease; but only because the customer using the non-human station can get out of the store faster. And the customer will always gravitate to the place where he/she is served with the least cost and time spent.
And to go back even further, how about supermarkets before the UPC scanning; and how about airport check-in before computers. I was there before any of these and I don't want to go there again!
You have continually ask, "what is 'productivity'?" I define it as producing more - at less cost. In simple terms that means getting more revenue while spending less money. Since the Industrial Revolution, machines have been replacing humans. This will continue; but so will job CREATION. But not in the same employment group (or UNION membership) as is so important to the union die-hards.
The flying public does not exist to keep to anyone employed. Airline employees jobs exist to serve the flying public. To blindly resist the kiosks is to deny reality.
We use the ATM instead of a bank teller window. At my bank there are now 50 machines with no lines of humans waiting where there used to be 10 human staffed windows each with lines of 10 or more humans waiting. But there are still five human staffed windows.
At my supermarket there are still the same number of human staffed checkout lanes. But there are a growing number of self-checkout stations. Maybe the staffed lanes will decrease; but only because the customer using the non-human station can get out of the store faster. And the customer will always gravitate to the place where he/she is served with the least cost and time spent.
And to go back even further, how about supermarkets before the UPC scanning; and how about airport check-in before computers. I was there before any of these and I don't want to go there again!
You have continually ask, "what is 'productivity'?" I define it as producing more - at less cost. In simple terms that means getting more revenue while spending less money. Since the Industrial Revolution, machines have been replacing humans. This will continue; but so will job CREATION. But not in the same employment group (or UNION membership) as is so important to the union die-hards.
The flying public does not exist to keep to anyone employed. Airline employees jobs exist to serve the flying public. To blindly resist the kiosks is to deny reality.
