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Will a Robotized Workplace = Set Quotas for Hiring People?
February 7, 2016 | Lee Martell

Posted on 02/07/2016 5:08:16 PM PST by lee martell

We are at the threshold of a society deeply impacted by industrialized robots and AI systems. In a few years, driverless cars may become quite common in America, cutting into the business of human drivers, as with Uber or any Check Cab. Long distance Truck Drivers may be replaced by driverless trucks that never get tired and rarely become confused. Many wealthy people are already obtaining financial planning advice from robotized systems. Our children may be taught by instructional robots that memorize the child's name, face and study habits. My question is where will all these people find work? Will there be 200+ applicants for every Burger King position that has not been assigned to a vending machine?

Will we reach the point many capitalists would abhor, the point at which the government will need to legislate the exact number of percentage of hiring that can only be filled by human beings? Time will tell. Of course, there is always the possibility, that the consuming public itself will begin to see the intrinsic value of individual people, even with our error rates considered. I think eventually, people will begin to examine other reasons for existing besides working. This will be a very hard concept for many Americans to accept. We have been raised to measure our worth by what we produce. It may have to become this way. It may become a new age of altruism and service to others. A rediscovery of what it means to be human.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: robots; trends; workforce; workplace
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To: lee martell

The molsem robots may come with those big explosion self destruct options.


21 posted on 02/07/2016 6:05:33 PM PST by GregoTX
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To: combat_boots
and it'll prolly save them BIG TIME BUCKS down the road with less cars coming in for service because of stuff wrong with them
22 posted on 02/07/2016 6:17:26 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: lee martell

It is a fundamental economic principle that labor and capital are interchangeable. It is only a matter of cost that determines the optimum amount of labor and capital. As labor costs increase without any increase in output, it becomes more and more feasible to replace labor with capital, that is automate. The ultimate outcome of the push for higher minimum wages is that employers will find it increasingly cost effective to replace workers with machines. Consider the telephone system a few decades ago when operators connected the calls. Dial technology ended these jobs, but improved telephone services and technologies. If mgovernment had acted to preserve those telephone operators jobs, it is unlikely we would have our current cell phone technology.


23 posted on 02/07/2016 6:22:05 PM PST by The Great RJ (�Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.� Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m thinking they’ll look like the fem bots from the Austin Powers movie.


24 posted on 02/07/2016 6:27:55 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Cruz 2016)
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To: BRK
Of course, programmers, engineers and maintainers will be needed in droves until even that will be handled by robots and AI computers.

The trouble is that guest workers are pushed towards those fields in alarming numbers.

Not sure about what will happen to displaced citizens, but it seems like the current philosophy is to put them on SSI/SSDI and write them off from regular (read: non-temporary) employment.

25 posted on 02/07/2016 6:27:59 PM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: lee martell

A set quota for all races based on population would probably be better than what it is quickly becoming. Some companies are scared to hire whites.


26 posted on 02/07/2016 6:51:47 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts sw the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"..which will resemble human females in every possible way ..."

What could possibly go wrong?


27 posted on 02/07/2016 7:06:34 PM PST by DannyTN
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28 posted on 02/07/2016 7:12:05 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Sort of like BitCoins, right ?


29 posted on 02/07/2016 8:42:23 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Eventually, someone will insist on marrying their custom made robot. “I never felt like this before!”


30 posted on 02/07/2016 8:46:42 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Fai Mao

For years, it was common knowledge that cars produced on certain days of the week would be more reliable than others.
This may have been due to the slow encroachment of robots displacing the union workers.


31 posted on 02/07/2016 8:50:57 PM PST by lee martell
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To: digger48

Danger, Will Robinson!


32 posted on 02/07/2016 8:52:26 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Chode

That looks very efficient.
So long as you don’t hit a stray brick mixed with the carrots.


33 posted on 02/07/2016 8:54:26 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Crucial

Racial discrimination, be it labeled “reverse” or otherwise is wrong. Whites and Asians should speak out more when it happens.


34 posted on 02/07/2016 9:20:19 PM PST by lee martell
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To: DannyTN

Is that Sandra Flukes older sister,the one who’s still a virgin?


35 posted on 02/07/2016 9:22:32 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell
they prolly spend a lot of time on soil prep in the spring
36 posted on 02/07/2016 9:34:46 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: lee martell

And you’re right. I lack the tact to do so when the outrage builds within me so I keepy mouth shut so as to not pigeonhole me in the category of bigot. I don’t know how to get liberals and minorities to embrace the concept of merit.


37 posted on 02/07/2016 11:24:21 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts sw the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: lee martell

There are a lot of jobs people won’t want machines to do, whether taking care of other people or maintaining the machines.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment


38 posted on 02/08/2016 8:04:08 AM PST by tbw2
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