Millions Of Middle-Class Jobs Killed By Machines In Great Recession’s Wake

Source: Huffington Post, 1/23/13
Posted here: Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 @ 11:22pm

Editor’s Note: Since the nano-second ended by the end of 2012, those “not from here” are speeding up the process quite remarkably; I have a hard time catching up. Already in 1998 I wrote about how the Illuminati wants to get rid of the middle-class, and now they show how to do it – by replacing them with technology. Now is the beginning of the “Machine Kingdom” I’ve written so much about in my papers. People soon will need to make a choice regarding their future… Wes Penre.

NEW YORK — Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.

And the situation is even worse than it appears.

Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What’s more, these jobs aren’t just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren’t just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.

They’re being obliterated by technology.

Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived.