jlg@lanl.ARPA (02/21/85)
at the person will be unemployable? If people were automata which were built for only one task, then this would be true. But people are flexible things, and can be retrained to do other work that has not been automated yet. In Japan, companies retrain their own employees who were displaced by automation. This is not some inscrutable Japanese tradition which has survived the centuries, the American occupation forces put this constraint on Japanese companies. I don't know if this practice still has the force of law in Japan, but the companies still follow it. J. Giles