Letters to the Editor
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Protein Shakes? Better hand out the Kool Aid instead...
Adam Smith's idea's are not counterpoint to his neoconservative equivalent, they simply underline managements current need to downgrade, or dumb down the labor force. The means for doing this are provided by technology, primarily. Properly designed companies, virtually run themselves. The real creativity is at the macro level, where companies are bought and sold, and CEO's who understand little about the product they make, create business models which succeed. Microsoft is an average technology company, and a hugely successful business. One can argue they are anti-technology, because they buy new technologies simply to keep them off the market.
The point of automation is that business requires fewer workers, and the job requires less physical work, and less education. This means ulitmately that the world is overpopulated, as we thought it was fifty years ago. Now we have to get rid of some of these people, who put an undue strain on resources, and quality of life, and you want to start giving them protein shakes? More likely the powers to be will start handing out Kool Aid, before the current generation has come of age.