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.....
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Even highly automated plants employ a lot of people.
...or we wise up and become protectionist again.
The buggy whip analogy doesn’t work here. Buggy whips are obsolete. We are talking about factories making useful products and discussing where and how they are made. A totally different subject.
Actually yes it will. The printers are varied and can be put on flatbeds.
Actually not... as a manufacturing guy I can tell you in the last 30 years replacing human with semiautomatic processes (i.e. 1 example only: hand layup polyurethane with injection molding at a 75% reduction in piece part price true tooling cost is greater but overcome quickly) that it is a true analogy. I can run 3 injection mold presses with 1 guy. It takes multiple to run the hand layup. This is factories and it is changing every day.
The 3d printing is going to change the world... it’s already happening on prototypes. where before a photo would cost 10k and take 3 weeks now it can be run for 500 and take 48 hours. the world is changing. question is how to get onboard.
>>...or we wise up and become protectionist again.
Our Globalist masters will continue to do what they do and as long as they keep throwing electronics and easy credit at the masses, most will not wise up.
Until the day when it all ends.
I worked in a Tier I stamping plant for 35 years and saw first hand how increased automation reduced jobs but improved the productivity of the company.
There will forever be kids who don't have the intelligence or motivation to go to college and those are the ones who have to be convinced that learning a trade will be their only assurance of a good paying job when they become adults. Automation will always break down and there has to be someone to fix them..........
There should be more trades related classes offered in high school that would help steer kids to a trade of their choice and more trade schools to host them once they leave high school........
BINGO!! Can't defend yourselves as a country if you don't know how to make things.
As a former community college instructor, there are a lot of trades represented in high schools, and college credit classes by community colleges for credit within the high schools. Those classes are usually paid for with a state grant.
Democrats tried to take claim to free college for low income students, but PELL GRANT already does that, and has for past few decades! To apply a prospective student can talk to financial aid office at local community college.
The issue is getting students to consider those free classes, and keep their grades up so they can do so! Good students can get a whole semester plus of college out of the way, while still in high school. Or complete a trade school, if motivated.
EX: Electric, Plumbing, Carpentry, A/C/Heat, Office, accounting, IT, or Cosmetology, among others.
College: Criminal Justice (for law enforcement), Basic College Prep classes, and Healthcare (CNA, EMT, LPN etc)
Since my company was a UAW plant, we had an apprenticeship program which really was hard to get into. I think we had to maintain a ratio of 1 apprentice for each 8 skilled tradesmen.
Anyway, to obtain their UAW journeyman's card they had to complete 8000 hours of on the job training and classroom training at the local community college....
The downside was that since we were a Tier I supplier and the wages were below what the local auto companies were paying, we would frequently lose the journeymen who went thru our program to the Big Three......
Not compared to what they employed before. During the 2000’s global manufacturing employment dropped 25%, and automation has advanced a lot since then. We simply don’t need people to make stuff anymore.
That’s the point? If factories are automated then they should HERE. Heck all factories should be here instead of importing poverty.
They should be where it makes sense for them to be. We aren’t always the primary market, and we aren’t always the primary source. Then of course we have all of our anti-business laws, over taxation, and unions that just can’t wrap their head around the new reality of manual labor being largely unnecessary.
Unions are dead. They only account for 7% of the workforce. Factories are offshore for access to cheap labor. Then the products are shipped in duty free which is an abomination. IF you want socialism ,that’s how you get socialism.
Depends on where you want to build your factory. Unions are still very much alive in all the ways that make companies decide not to be there.
Factories are offshored for many many reasons. And haranguing people doesn’t fix any of them.
Unions are only 7% of the workforce and used as a boogeymen man for Free Traitors™ false propaganda.
Repeating yourself and adding insults doesn’t change the facts. Unions are still very powerful in some sectors, especially manufacturing. No propaganda about it.
Unions members are only 10% of the manufacturing sector according to the BLS. Strike two.
No strikes at all. 10% is enough to drastically effect how a company does business.
Meanwhile you’ve completely ignored the other points I made. Nothing but insults and lies from you.
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