Friday, May 20, 2011

Is technology taking jobs away?

Today I am writing on my iPhone. First of all to see if I can, and second to get more practice typing on this screen. Beware of spelling and grammatical errors especially today.
I went to the bank today to deposit my paycheck. Now that I have the iPhone, I might not ever need to go to a branch again. I can take pictures of my checks and deposit them through my phone. I also pay most of my bills online without ever writing a check. Although, this may be convenient, at what price does this cost? Let's look at this for a minute. If my bills go through electronically, that means there is no paper being mailed via the post office. Which means that our postal workers are being cut since they are carrying less mail. Which also means that those who stay have to pick up more slack and they have to change the routes. So now you have less employees making most likely the same wage yet doing more.
On the other hand, it's costing me more to have access to this new way of living. I'm mot making more money, yet I have to pay more for the conviences of technology. I switched plans to have less minutes to actually speak to people, but I can now check my 2 email accounts, Facebook, blog, etc. any time from one device.
I miss dealing with humans. I hate calling numbers just to vet a computer generated voice that does not understand what I am trying to ask. You want jobs? Go old school and start dealing with people in person.
I think that I might be out of room on my phone's screen. I think that you get the gist.
Task completed.

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