"vegetable weigher", a job that doesn't know crisis

in #life7 years ago

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When everyone is talking and thinking AI, Fintech, Blockchain... in some countries like Morocco, The majority of the workforce are still employed in poorly qualified and low paid jobs.

In several fields of activity, the value chain is dichotomized into several tasks, with as a distribution key: a limited number of tasks. The links in the chain are complementary, help each other, but do not believe in a model based on versatility and give no chance to logistics. Each business line is content with one or two tasks. Here, the example of a "vegetable weigher", one of the rarest source of income that could exist nowadays. In the picture, Kabour, Fifty one years old, has a single function: to measure how heavy is the bunch of onions.

Such a function can very well be fulfilled by the driver of the truck (the case in Europe or United States), from which Kabour unloads the goods for resale to intermediaries in the wholesale market of fruits and vegetables in Casablanca -Morocco-.

In nonindustrial economies, people who have lower levels of qualification are forced into lower-qualified jobs than those to which they hoped to aspire. How can technology change the game?

I'd like to know your point of vue on that.