So it was announced today that Marks and Spencer are closing 120 stores nationwide to, and I quote "encourage online sales". **Encourage online sales? ** The process of globalisation cutting out the input of human beings in order to save money and increase profits goes on. You go into a bank or building society and there's one cashier on facing a huge queue but there's two or three girls trying to reduce the queue by getting them to use self service machines. After talking to an employee in the Halifax a few months ago, she admitted that the writing was on the wall and they knew eventually, the Halifax would be an almost completely automated service. You go to a petrol station and once again, you are encouraged to go self service, a lot of them are self service only. Supermarkets are the same, self service, tills unattended. Everything paid for with cards, no money passing hands. You go to London and you can't get on public transport using money. It won't be long, before human beings have been eradicated from so many jobs and positions and being replaced with machines and automation.
The signs are all around us, only most choose not to see and if they do see, they don't seem to care...
I am for self service machines, but only partially. Because there are jobs that just can not be automated. And with every automation, society should not be "regulated" with job losses, but with other, better jobs, because of economic progress. But that's not what we see happening... US or EU, almost same thing