#Amazon employs over half a million workers. In the past year alone, the #onlineretailer has added roughly a quarter of a million employees to its headcount, and 238 cities across the country are competing to become the location of Amazon's second headquarters, which is estimated to create 50,000 more Amazon jobs.

But according to Dave Edwards and Helen Edwards at Quartz, Amazon may be killing more jobs than it creates. According to their calculations, even if Amazon maintains an impressive 43% personnel growth for another year, the total number of workers employed in Amazon-related industries would still decrease by 24,000.


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Retail jobs decline as Amazon's #robot army grows
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/04/retail-jobs-decline-as-amazons-robot-army-grows.html

In much of the world, people whose livelihoods depend on paychecks are increasingly anxious about a potential wave of #unemployment threatened by automation. As the frightening tale goes, #globalization forced people in wealthier lands like North America and Europe to compete directly with cheaper laborers in Asia and Latin America, sowing joblessness. Now, the robots are coming to finish off the humans.

But such talk has little currency in #Sweden or its Scandinavian neighbors, where unions are powerful, government support is abundant, and trust between employers and employees runs deep. Here, #robots are just another way to make companies more efficient. As employers prosper, workers have consistently gained a proportionate slice of the spoils - a stark contrast to the United States and Britain, where wages have stagnated even while corporate profits have soared.


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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/business/the-robots-are-coming-and-sweden-is-fine.html

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+Tim Moore looking forward to the +Sparkstir launch! Gonna be epic! #disruptivetechnology  

This is pretty cool, with the potential to very awesome.

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#education #disruptivetechnology

Open text books, their time has come.

We've been home schooling our children in English while they've gone to public elementary and junior high school for many years. Our daughter has just started home schooling for high school full time as her public junior high school year came to an end last week. Far and away, the biggest expense that we have is text books.

One thing we've learned, though, is that Project Gothenburg has a lot of out-of-copyright books that act very well for history and literature. I've been enjoying "Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science" by Elisha Gray, Ph. D., LL. D. published in 1899. It is fascinating how much meteorology was advanced with the invention of the telegraph. And making ice in warm regions without electricity! How much knowledge has been forgotten? Mr. Gray even talks about how dealing with the inevitable coal shortage will be another generation's problem as people have talked about oil shortage being another generation's problem for decades. It's fascinating how much changes yet remains the same.

Nonetheless, knowledge does advance, and it needs to be accessible. I remember fuming in the Financial Aid line waiting to pick up my student loan so that I could buy my books while listening to some guy talk about "buying new rims for my Beemer." Those who could afford the books didn't seem that interested in getting an education. That was something that really bothered me about the university.

Nonetheless, this is going to upset a lot of people who make a great deal of money for text books. I remember how the used text book market really upset a lot of publishers, forcing them to update their textbooks more frequently in order to thwart such practices. I'm sure that many professors will start getting more money under the table to stay away from these text books - at least until they're so much better than the publishers' offerings that they can no longer do so.

This will be an interesting battle going forward.