Humans Need Not Apply

[jazzy_dave]

Nabbed from jeriendhal this is a very important and sobering video. So the ideal of full employment is no longer viable for the majority of us in the near future, if not now.

Scary ..

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

One of the frustrating things about that -- historically, standardized tests were a tool that allowed disadvantaged people to get decent jobs. For over two thousand years, the Imperial Examinations that started in the Han Dynasty and lasted all the way to the 20th century allowed a path for a handful of talented rural peasants to get decent middle-class jobs in the Chinese Imperial Bureaucracy. The Regents exam has had a similar benefit on New York State students for the past hundred and fifty years. So there have been great benefits to standardized testing throughout history -- but NOW, I think they're more of a hindrance than a help.