I don't really want to get much to deep into this discussion, however I have seen personally how the internet has been eliminating jobs consistently over the years.

Just a few examples of friends of mine who have been negatively impacted by the ever increasing services of the internet. Stockbrokers, Travel Agents, Print Media-Publishing and various distribution networks just to name a few.

I have had direct contact with food and packaging distribution for over 20 years and I also have contacts with customers in many different domaines. So where is it all going, basically companies are expecting more and more responsiblities and service from their employees, and consequently want to pay them a smaller overall margin of their operating costs. Competition has become much more aggressive because information flow has become much easier for customers through the increased speed of information technology, thereby eliminating the need for increased employment. Actually, the continued increased speed of of our current evolution is setting up for a dramatic crash. Nothing can continuously go faster and faster without crashing. Debt loads around the globe continue to rise faster and there doesn't appear to be any real solution to the ongoing increased problem.

The large corporations which actually are making huge profits, such as banks, continuously reduce their staff in an effort to constantly increase their overall profits, so that a few fortunate individuals can achieve their ridiculous bonus objectives and huge salaries.

Govenments are seeing reduced revenues through taxes, so they look at other ways of increasing taxes, through other means. Does Government really want us to consume less gasoline, no not really, that is one of their highest revenue generators. When you are driving around, do you ever think about how easy it would be for them to actually syncronize the traffic lights. Why don't they, we would save so much money and it would be so easy to do. But it seems no matter where ever I go, I'm always going the speed limit and I'm almost always stopping at every stop light. Why?

It's becoming a game of the big want to always get bigger and have the power to make it happen. However, this world was build on a different sharing philosophy of entrepreneurship which is being eliminated and distroyed through globilization and integration of economies which should never be integrated.

Skier