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Ma: We need to stop training kids for manufacturing jobs
KSAT-TV ^ | September 20, 2017 | Julia Horowitz, CNN Money

Posted on 09/20/2017 3:16:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Jack Ma knows artificial intelligence will change the world.

The Alibaba founder and chairman doesn't think we should be scared. But he does think we should be prepared for major disruptions to the job market.

"In the last 200 years, manufacturing (has brought) jobs. But today -- because of the artificial intelligence, because of the robots -- manufacturing is no longer the main engine of creating jobs," Ma said Wednesday in a speech at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York City.

Moving forward, Ma said he believes the service industry will be the largest engine of job creation.

Ma's stance is starkly different from the economic vision espoused President Donald Trump, who campaigned on an "America First" populist agenda and has repeatedly made promises to restore U.S. manufacturing jobs.....

(Excerpt) Read more at ksat.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: automation; education; jobs; robots
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Are robots going to fix your car or build your house?

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“In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”

Who knows what the next 500+ years will
bring in terms of life, manufacturing, etc.


21 posted on 09/20/2017 3:41:56 PM PDT by deport
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To: Honorary Serb

“-——— Or those who treat elders as trash as “assisted living” workers. “


How,exactly,do assisted living workers treat elderly like trash?

Assisted living workers cover a VERY broad range of care.

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22 posted on 09/20/2017 3:42:09 PM PDT by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you don’t have the manufacturing processes, then you don’t have the robotic processes either.

It’s not going to be an instant transition from skilled labor to robotics.

Someone has to service the robots. Someone has to program the robots. Someone has to design the product. Someone has to design the manufacturing process.

We need as much manufacturing in this country as we can get. And we can worry about the transitions later.


23 posted on 09/20/2017 3:43:32 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems like only yesterday I was reading an analysis of the devastation wrought on carriage and buggy whip manufacturing by introduction of the automobile.

My understanding is that the US economy has yet to recover from the event.


24 posted on 09/20/2017 3:44:20 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Are robots going to fix your car or build your house?

A San Francisco startup 3D printed a whole house in 24 hours

25 posted on 09/20/2017 3:47:44 PM PDT by Database
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To: KarlInOhio

Danny Noonan: Where did it land?
Ty Webb: Right in the lumberyard.


26 posted on 09/20/2017 3:50:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alvin Toffler got there way way before you jack.

The way I see it is we’ll develop into two classes. The Gentry and the Serfs. The Gentry will propagate through inheritance and legacy acceptance into major universities and corporate board.


27 posted on 09/20/2017 3:59:54 PM PDT by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Database

The printer won’t put that house on a lot.


28 posted on 09/20/2017 4:01:18 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Mears

At least some do! You gotta admit it!!!!


29 posted on 09/20/2017 4:01:20 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: deport

“Who knows what the next 500+ years will
bring in terms of life, manufacturing, etc.”

It will bring us Idiocracy. But maybe we are already there.


30 posted on 09/20/2017 4:01:41 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fhios
Electro-mechanical technicians are and will be in great demand to troubleshoot and fix robots, CNC machines, etc.

I recently retired from being one.

Very few folks seem to be getting the education they need for the field.

31 posted on 09/20/2017 4:04:48 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump... made promises to restore U.S. manufacturing jobs.....

I think we can and should restore some manufacturing jobs, but I don't think the workers at these plant will enjoy the same level of prosperity that factory workers enjoyed in, say the 1960's.

32 posted on 09/20/2017 4:08:55 PM PDT by libertylover (Inhabitants of Earth with any freedom probably have the USA to thank.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Robots are already taking over manufacturing and inventory here and everywhere. Your average manufacturing joe, who’s either just out of prison or a High School drop out will be out of a job and skills in about 5-10 years. That’s how fast this is moving.

Even “thinking” jobs are rapidly being replaced by robots, AI, and other programs. Cars, forklifts, cranes, rail, even kitchens/restaurants will replace people with robots in a few short years unless something impedes the progress of the technology.


33 posted on 09/20/2017 4:11:53 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Nik Naym

Yeah, the globalists need to get some new lines.


34 posted on 09/20/2017 4:19:07 PM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This article is especially ridiculous because China’s economic rise is entirely due to labor intensive manufacturing. The only reason Jack Ma’s company exists is because so much of the world’s manufacturing has relocated to China. Because China is a deeply corrupt dictatorship with no functioning judicial system and a culture of rip offs, he serves as an intermediary that allows non-Chinese to buy Chinese manufactured products with some protections. This racket would fall apart instantly if China’s share of world manufacturing dropped to 80’s levels. Ma’s wealth and power is dependent on manufacturing staying in China. This is classic advice given in bad faith.


35 posted on 09/20/2017 4:31:50 PM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We were being fed this line of crap in the 1980’s.


36 posted on 09/20/2017 4:38:19 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: WatchungEagle

Trump must be worrying the crap out of Ma.


37 posted on 09/20/2017 4:39:09 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I heard doomsayers 50 years ago, back in the early sixties, warning that computers were going to take away jobs from humans. Now it's AI and robots. Yet somehow the number of jobs has doubled and doubled again in the meantime.
38 posted on 09/20/2017 7:23:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a dummy! America is swirling the drain because too many people have bought into this already!


39 posted on 09/20/2017 8:08:01 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the last 200 years, manufacturing (has brought) jobs.

But in the last 50 years the USA has off shored much of it's manufacturing base to Asia and Mexico.

40 posted on 09/20/2017 8:09:56 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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