(09-11-2017, 11:11 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: filling gas tanks.
There's a job that is pretty much a thing of the past these days. Except in the states of New Jersey and Oregon, where self-serve is illegal.
"Check your tires? Check your filter? Check your fluids?"
Self service turned the business of selling gasoline from a trip to the repair shop where one might be sold a wiper blade before one really needed one into a trip to a convenience store in which you might buy some beer that you didn't need and some cancerweed products bad for you... or some overpriced groceries. Now you get the wiper blades, fluids, and air filter at some place that uses oil changes to attract you.
...The jobs most likely to be lost are unskilled jobs due to various forms of automation.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.