Scared robots will take your job? Just get a new one, says this CEO

CNBC ^ | July 14, 2017 | Hollie Wong and Uptin Saiidi

[2ndDivisionVet]

The race to create A.I. and robotic technology that will change the way we work and live is dominating countless industries.

But the chaos and disruption these ground-breaking fields are set to have on numerous areas of the economy, the job market, the banking system and the transportation industry have also incited fear.

Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma has previously warned that society could see decades of "pain" thanks to new technologies.

While Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that humans need to merge with machines to become a sort of cyborg if we want to stay relevant.

But forgetting wild predictions for the future, one chief executive believes he has the answer to one of the biggest tech questions of today: Will a robot take my job?

Speaking to CNBC in an episode of Life Hacks Live, VaynerMedia CEO and social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk said those working in potentially replaceable jobs need to start learning a new trade for the digital world.

"Robots taking over jobs are an issue for people that do jobs that robots are going to take over," said Vaynerchuk.

"People have lost their jobs forever. Jobs are always lost."

The CEO added that he didn't "feel bad" for the likes of truck drivers who aren't taking important steps to adapt.....

[central_va]

I don't believe a bit of what you are saying. All the empirical data points to the opposite. Heck, Ford just announced ALL Focus models will be made in China. Chinese imports are at an all time high.

Nice try globalist. Your propaganda doesn't work.

ConservativeMind? How about trying a NationalistMind?

[ctdonath2]

Not long ago, 4/5th of people worked on farms. Now it’s >0.1%. Unskilled labor has little difficulty transitioning to newly opened unskilled jobs.

And yes, there will always be more unskilled jobs available, so long as government does not prohibit low paying jobs.

[ctdonath2]

Make that “<0.1%”

[ctdonath2]

Well then, such a job would be very easy to automate.

[ConservativeMind]

What I have said is completely true.

I worked with that firm and China does not allow free movement of labor, outside of between companies in a locality.

China is afraid that the “peasants” would overwhelm the cities. It’s still a communist country.

[tbw2]

The problem is that the remaining jobs are a mix of intellectually and physically demanding, excluding those with the least ability to retrain even if they had the money for more schooling.

Dr. Jordan Peterson - IQ and The Job Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0

[discostu]

While it’s a dick way to say it he’s right. The future is happening with or without you. If your job is one targeted for automation it WILL be automated, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. When you exit on your own time frame you get more options.

[discostu]

You realize the reason they dropped out is because they achieved the goal. They know plenty, and they have tech backgrounds even without degrees. They don’t fear competing. And really Gates is retired.

As for one reliable robot how about the entire mining industry. It’s all automated, has been for over a decade.

[discostu]

You might have a right to earn a living, but you don’t have a right to a particular job. The robots aren’t going, they’re coming, and if that’s your line of work you better change your line of work, because you can’t win this fight.

[CodeToad]

“Bill Gates DROPOUT...They are know nothing”

Actually, Bill Gates is an accomplished computer programmer. He has the tech skills you could only dream of.

[CodeToad]

“Gates has never had a tech background. “

That’s a very ignorant statement. Bill was programming computers before you were born.

[CodeToad]

“Bill Gates DROPOUT
Zuckerberg DROPOUT”

So, did you stay in school and finish college? If so, did you gain billion dollar fortunes? No? What a loser! Got beat by a couple of dropouts.

[Garth Tater]

There is no such specified right

There certainly is. It's called life.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men."

And not only do we have this right, we have the right to set up a system that supports this right.

[grey_whiskers]

Yeah, tell me again about Sun Microsystems and the IBM 767.

[Lazamataz]

Gates has never had a tech background. He is a master salesman He couldn’t write a line of code or produce a piece of hardware if his life depended on it

Quite incorrect. From Business Insider:

Spolsky explained:

"In those days we used to have these things called BillG reviews. Basically every major important feature got reviewed by Bill Gates. ....

In my BillG review meeting ... a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f***-count, the better.

"Four," announced the f*** counter, and everyone said, "wow, that's the lowest I can remember. Bill is getting mellow in his old age." He was, you know, 36.

Later I had it explained to me. "Bill doesn't really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you've got it under control. His standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don't know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared. Nobody was really sure what happens if you answer the hardest question he can come up with because it's never happened before.

... It was a good point. Bill Gates was amazingly technical. ... He didn't meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn't bullsh** him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.

[grey_whiskers]

Well then, such a job would be very easy to automate.

One does not simply automate diversity and FeelGoodz on the part of executives.

Saaaay, why don't we mandate robot diversity training? Lotsa lucrative jobs there:

Colleges Pay Diversity Officers More Than Professors, Staff

[Garth Tater]

Hate to break it to you Garth but the robots won't be going anywhere.

You seem to have a lot of faith in a system that has a lot of indicators pointing towards an inevitable collapse. $20,000,000,000,000 of debt for one that will ensure that our future generations are born into debt slavery.

100,000,000 men and women of working age outside of the workforce for another.

And companies aren't going to get rid of robots that replace countless workers either.

I won't make them do anything. But I won't allow a system that taxes labor while benefiting the wealth of a few to continue if it ensures the enslavement or starvation of my family and my countrymen.

Want a job? learn how to fix robots.

You'd be surprised at what I know how to build and how to fix. And how to break. My statement that you are responding to said nothing about a "job." I said a man has a right to earn a living. You seem to think that working for another man (or a mega-corporation) is the only way to do that. You are wrong. The current system favors the large, the powerful and the politically connected at the detriment to families that want to earn they own way and raise their own (not the state's) children. Corporations and the productive systems being set up now are being built in an unfair tax environment. Robots should be taxed one half of their produce - not us.

One question for you Drew. What are we going to do when it is no longer us but the robots that are fixing robots?

[Garth Tater]

Breaking robots won't feed your family.

I am quite capable of feeding my family all by myself. I am currently being taxed to feed several additional families. And while doing this I am being spent into the poor house by my local, state and federal govts at the same time they are doing all they can to make me and my neighbors way of life uncompetitive in the face of their large corporate supporters. We won't support a system that has no room for us and if necessary we will set up a new system that does.

[dfwgator]

China is the world’s biggest “House of Cards” that will eventually collapse, and when it does, it won’t be pretty.

[Garth Tater]

“A man’s got a right to make a living.”

A man’s got a right to EARN a living.

Making a living and earning a living are the same thing. I did not say a man has a right to a job which you seem to be implying.

You reiterate complaints heard since the Industrial Revolution. Everyone who wants a job can still get one

So I guess you are trying to say I think every man has a right to a job. And then you go on to say that everyone who wants a job can get one - and then you contradict yourself by saying "save for the Leftist prohibition on insufficient productivity aka minimum wage." This "prohibition" you mention is just one of many restrictions on our abilities to fend for ourselves. The current system taxes labor at near 50% while taxing the produce of machinery at somewhere closer to 15%. Of course robots will be taking our jobs in this system. We have a responsibility to right this wrong.