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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 02/24/2020 02:55 PM, Byker wrote:   
   > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:40:08 -0700, rbowman    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 02/23/2020 05:42 PM, Byker wrote:   
   >>> "rbowman"  wrote in message news:hbg9ccFf1mgU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> GE did sponsor a trip to the NY World's Fair and myself and a couple of   
   >>>> friends were selected. The future was wide open, flying cars and all   
   >>>> that 'better living through chemistry' stuff.   
   >>>   
   >>> I heard the same thing as a nine-year-old at the Seattle World's Fair.   
   >>>   
   >>>> That was mostly a lie. By the early '70s the globalists were   
   >>>> dismantling   
   >>>> the country and telling us about the 'service economy'.   
   >>>   
   >>> As kids we were all told how robots would be doing all the work, and we   
   >>> could enjoy the "Life of Riley". Instead we were given more work to do,   
   >>> as "multi-tasking" entered the vernacular...   
   >>   
   >> When I graduated college I thought I was looking forward to a career   
   >> designing industrial automation systems. There were a few golden years in   
   >> the machine tool industry as plants replaced machinery that had been   
   >> purchased during WWII and was at the end of life. Then the money people   
   >> decided it was more lucrative to rebuild the old equipment and send it to   
   >> someplace with cheap labor. The first stop was the southern US states,   
   >> then   
   >> the maquiladoras across the border, and finally Asia.   
   >>   
   >> The machine tool industry centered on the Connecticut river in   
   >> Connecticut   
   >> and Vermont is history replaced by a thriving drug industry.   
   >>   
   >> Our so-called leaders pissed it all away.   
   >   
   > I got my last degree in Electronics Technology (Robotics), just in time for   
   > most of the high-tech jobs to go overseas. Those that remained paid   
   > dog-food   
   > wages. I just threw up my hands, said "fuck it," and took whatever work was   
   > available locally. Construction work paid surprisingly well...   
      
   I transitioned to programming. Relay logic, TTL logic, fluidic logic,   
   microprocessor logic all the same-same at the end of the day. It wasn't   
   the same jump as turning a coal miner into a 'coder'.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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