Apple Contract Assembler Foxconn
Deploying 40,000 Robots
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Kids need to go into robotics so they can get jobs working on and programming robotics.
Electronics today have to be built by robots.
So many, so fast....
So many things that BURN! and Blow up.....Robots are after us they are going to kill us all!
This wave is just starting to build.
People are going to be displaced from jobs in ever increasing numbers. This will dwarf the displacements of the industrial revolution, the rise of the service economy, or the Internet.
It will come so quickly, that there just won’t be enough old style jobs to absorb the numbers being laid off. Like musical chairs, those left without a job in the shuffle will have to either make their own, or go on the government dole.
We know which of those the left will want. We should try to make it easy, cheap and quick to start small businesses, before this wave starts to hit in force. If the government won’t do it, maybe a service company can provide turnkey support for individuals to become self-employed (i.e. legal/regulatory compliance).
Each year will be more folks displaced than the previous. In just a few years, whole industries will begin rapidly shedding their employees, like Kodak when the digital camera took off (Down 1/3/ each year).
Taxi drivers, truck drivers, food delivery drivers all face a rapid handover to self driving cars in a few years. Manufacturing is starting to shrink already. When general purpose humanoid-equivalent robots become available, old jobs will start to go away by the tens of millions per year.
All routine jobs -- whether manual or not -- will be automated.
All the people who promise to bring factory jobs back to the USA are dreaming. Those jobs are gone forever -- not to China, but into ether.
The factories may come back to the USA, but the jobs will be automated.
As to RWR's post - kids need to go into robotics -- this isn't a solution as only I would think 10% of students have this ability.
even in the wider world where routine jobs are automated, 80% of people can only do this type of a job. I don't believe we can help them when jobs get automated, I don't believe they can be re-trained. And even among current students, the same pareto rule -- 80% will be useful for no job.
This will make i-whatsits ever more affordable, a positive boon to humanity!
Remember, Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. The money that is paid in by workers today ad paid out to people on retirement tomorrow. There is no "lock-box."
If robots don't pay Social Security, people on retirement will starve.
The good news: we can finally send someone to explore the ocean depths. (And that island in the Indian Ocean where the natives kill all who drop in.)
I am currently saving up to buy a Mac but by the time I’m ready to buy it, it might look like...people.
Just like Americans won't pick strawberries, lettuce, almonds and pistachios. Maybe the better solution is for China to import tens of millions of Mexicans and Middle Easterners to do the work the Chinese won't do.
Skynet
Maybe we should consider replacing politicians with robots.
At this point I wonder which I’m going to suit up to go join my guerrilla team to fight first: an oppressive federal government or a company making robots that’s about to put 80% of my family and friends out of a job permanently.
I never thought I would even consider being a Luddite but if the choice is fight or accept being downshifted to 3rd-world status for the rest of my life...