Scirocco's Vroom Vroom Journal

this same argument has played itself out repeatedly. People should understand that some day their skills need to change or they may have to change careers to keep a job. Back in the 1970s Katherine Graham broke the unions at the Washington Post because they insisted on using old equipment and not modern computerized printing presses because it employed four times as many workers. Even now, the CWA insists on having a man in each central office to diagnose circuit faults rather than using remote diagnosis capabilities that have been built into phone switches for twenty years. It sucks and in the end it costs the customers, the workers themselves, a whole lot more.