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Originally Posted by Charlatan
That's an interesting list...
The one that stands out for me is "The change from an agricultural society to an industrial one". We are in the process of going from Industrial to post-Industrial as we send nearly all our manufacturing overseas. This is causing a major shift in the economy and culture... the results aren't in yet but I suspect it will be nearly as important as agricultural to industrial.
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A book I'm reading for a class currently seems to imply much the same thing, although the author doesn't see this as two occurances, but one. The thought is pretty much that it isn't jobs moving overseas that is the biggest problem, but the technological displacement caused by ever-increacing automation and increasing production/efficiency. The ag industry was just hit first, because it was the easiest to have manpower replaced with machine power (very low-skill physical labor, not many intricate tasks).