This is all very well, but half of the human race is below average in intelligence. What are they going to do?
The robots taking jobs thing is wildly overblown as is the high level of training “required” to work on them.
I’m a high school drop out and I learned to program and maintain a bank of robotic painters as well as running the rest of the paint room. A Fanuc rep would come in for software upgrades but they were under contract to do that anyway.
Robots will make minorities obsolete. Then what happens?
Yeah. And who will pay to support the low-IQ individuals who will no longer be working? Oh, I forgot, we will, as usual.
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Due to our stupid policy of off shoring, robotics really won't affect the USA very much. We are becoming a post industrial nation with a high unemployed part of the populace, which is structural in nature.
More technology will lead to even more herding of the majority of people, the non-innovaters.
I'd be happier in a world that recognized and appreciated the positive aspects of those days.
The problem with a lot of the jobs which are currently being replaced is that creative types got swept up into them because the jobs that required creativity (or could even abide it) were few. I’m not sure how we get from point A to point B exactly, but I’ve seen a need and start college in a month to shake loose the cobwebs and learn something new. Pretty sure I’ll be hanging out my own shingle, so I can’t train for what I’d be best at even now, but it will still be a LOT more fun than what I had been doing!
I have a friend a couple doors down who stuck with the same sort of thing I had been doing, and she is currently being squeezed out, which is no fun at all.
I was at a large printing facility last week.
The floor covered at minimum several acres. Hundreds of machines humming away. Almost no people on the floor. Even the fork lifts were automated.
Happy talk articles like this one ignore many things. But one of the main things they ignore is numbers.
Sure, the facility I was at required workers to operate and maintain the robotic equipment. These are no doubt good jobs, much better than the machine operator jobs they replaced.
But it’s probable no more than 10, at most, of these jobs are provided for every 100 workers no longer needed. This is especially true because this plant operates 24/7. It therefore probably replaced three or four plants, and their workers, of equivalent size from just a couple of decades ago.
Taking jobs nobody else will do? I’ve heard this somewhere before.
Remember George Jetson?
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If you are in the same position as me (having been replaced by software), there is a danger in just defaulting to the job you couldn’t train for before because you lacked the time or money. The key is that word “before”. So either find someone who says “yes I will hire you if you do thus and such”, or find yourself a new field.
“Damn cracker robot, fust he take my job, now he’s shortin’ me on my fries.”
Yeah,
BUrgers and such aren’t bad enough at McDonalds already.
Bet it’s all gonna be wonderful after they change to robots making the soilent green there.
Humans weren’t designed to take enjoyment from being in front of a computer all day. Computers have really been hard on my health, so I’ve started working on old cars and gardening.
So, I see robotization decreasing the quality of existence, even if they increase material well being.
” New ones will be created as new technologies are developed, engineered and maintained. And, overall, these will be better, more high-skilled jobs. The agriculture industry provides a case in point. “
Nope.... Most new jobs will go to the robots and Artificial Intelligence.
Any new job that requires a human will go overseas to the slave labor markets in Asia or Latin America.
Now you will not see this happen overnight, but you will see a slow bleeding of jobs. Just like it has been since NAFTA.